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ORION
AN EPIC POEM

IN THREE BOOKS

By R. H. HORNE,
AUTHOR OF
THE TRAGEDIES OF COSMO DE' MEDICI,' GREGORY VII.'
' *

*THE DEATH OF MARLOWE,' THE MYSTERY PLAY OF JUDAS ISCARIOT,'

'

'
'ballad romances,' ETC.

NINTH EDITION.

LONDON
ELLIS AND GREEN,
33 KING STREET, COVENT GARDEN.
1872.

IaW
 BRIEF COMMENTARY.

Every Preface, or introductory commentary,

has a certain number of readers, who may be

described as the natural friends of Prefaces, or

their natural enemies. Let me hope to mitigate

the animosity of the latter (being one of the

number myself) by informing them, that, al-

though this Poem has passed through six edi-

tions in England, and several more in foreign

countries, the present Commentary — a portion

of which was, in a manner, forced from me in

Australia, some sixteen years ago — is the only

one that has been written for it, — that the

remarks will be as concise as possible, — and

that, in my own opinion, there really is no
iv Brief Commentary.

great need that anybody should read them.

They are offered, however, in deference to the

judgment of others.

The poem of '

Orion' was intended to work

out a special design, applicable to all times, by

means of antique or classical imagery and asso-

ciations ; and this design, with the hero and

the several characters who appear on the scene,

as well as the general structure and distribution

of the action, were long considered before a

line was written. A sort of cartoon of the

whole was then made, and submitt-ed to my

friend Dr. Leonhard Schmitz, long since recog-
nised as one of the most learned men of the

day, and equally possessed of a profound philo-

sophical spirit. To his kind and thoughtful

revision I have great pleasure in acknow-
ledging my obligations.

Orion, the hero of my fable, is meant to

present a type of the struggle of man with him-

 Brief Commentary. v

self, i. e. the contest between the intellect and

the senses, when powerful energies are equally

balanced. Orion is man standing naked before

Heaven and Destiny, resolved to work as a

really free agent to the utmost pitch of his

powers for the good of his race. He is a truly

practical believer in his gods, and in his own
conscience; a child with the strength of a giant;

innocently wise ; with a heart expanding to-

wards the largeness and warmth of Nature, and

a spirit unconsciously aspiring to the stars. He
is a dreamer of noble dreams," and a hunter of
grand shadows (in accordance with the an-

cient symbolic mythos), all tending to healthy

thought, or to practical action and structure.

He is the type of a Worker and a Builder for

his fellow-men. He presents the picture (well

or ill painted, the author cannot certainly know)

of a great and simple nature, struggling to de-

velope all its loftiest energies — determined to

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be, and to do, to obtain knowledge, and to use

it — to live up to its faculties — feeling and
acting nobly and powerfully for the service of

the world, and seeking its own reward and

happiness in the consciousness of a well-worked

life, and the possession of a perfect sympathy

enshrined in some lovely object.*

With regard to this intense sympathy with

some lovely object of personal passion and af-

fection, a witty authoress once said to me,

''But why should it require three goddesses to

perfect one giant?' The question, though put

playfully, is too profound to be answered in the

* On the first appearance of this poem, two young

poets, who have since become eminent in various ways
(Edmund OlUer and George Meredith), wrote to me their

several views of the design and character of Orion, each

of which was far better said than the above, and in less
than half the space. I am ashamed to say that I cannot

recollect their words, or they would have stood in the place

of mine.
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Brief Commentary. vii

same vein. It may be briefly said, however,

tliat the three great phases of the ordeal of the

passion of love, which most strong natures pass

through, are fairly portrayed in the story of

'
Orion.' He might have been represented as
finding perfection at the outset ; but since the

lot of humanity is seldom (if ever) so fortunate,

it seemed best that he should pass through the

several gradations of disappointment and suf-

fering, in order to arrive at the highest refine-

ments of sympathy and happiness. If the happi-

ness was short-lived, and met with destruction

at the selfish hands of a limited nature (an im-

perfect sympathy), who resented the bliss it

was itself incapable of attaining or conferring,

that also is the type of a melancholy truth.

The law of progress forbids man to rest in hap-

piness : in his misery he will not, cannot rest

but this law generally cuts short the work of

a man, not merely when he has done his best.
viii Brief Commentary.

or perhaps before, but even when he has done

as much as his age is capable of using. He
must go away, and make room for a different

greatness. The needs of a future age must be

supplied by future genius, because to see too

far in advance is just so much intellectual ac-

tivity projected into the air. Nothing can be

done with it. And the only result is the ridi-

cule, persecution, or utter neglect of the day.

Mr. G. H. Lewes, at the time this poem

was first published, being specially occupied
with the German metaphysicians, among whom
the business of a long life has often been that
of abstract speculation, and a kind of illustration

of the Hegelian subjectivity and objectivity

interpenetrating each other, endeavoured one

day to show me that the real hero of my poem
was not Orion, but Akinetos. Now, I had
studiously drawn the character of the giant
Akinetos — the Great Unmoved— in contradis-
 Brief Commentary. ix

tinction to that of Orion —a Great Mover of

the world — the one all action, the other all

thought leading to no action. Had Akinetos

heard the remark, he would have scorned to

be called a hero of any kind : he would have
asked what was the good of building houses on
the sands of the sea-shore ? The amusement
of fools incapable of sitting still. The philo-

sophy of Akinetos may be difficult to refute in

the abstract, but since human life is a mixture

of hard realities, with perfect illusions, Akinetos
was no hero, nor a good model for any. one
to follow, and therefore I finally set him in

stone, while Orion shines for ever.

The other characters speak for themselves.

My friend Mr. Tennyson smilingly accused me

about the same period, of intending the plau-
sible giant Encolyon as a largely outlined por-

trait of a certain eminent statesman of the day.

There was, perhaps, an amusing resemblance in
X Brief Commentary.

some respects ; but I had no such intention.

Besides, it would have been unbecoming the

dignity of Epic story. For a similar reason

some objection has been taken to the corn-

dealing episode of the inhabitants of stony

Ithaca during a famine, in Canto ii. B. i. But

while I believe the principles there set forth in

fable, are simple and universal — applicable in

all ages — I trust the form and picture are suffi-

ciently idealized to be in perfect harmony with

the rest of the story, its imagery, local scenery,

and characteristics. The reader, therefore,

ought not, I think, to reproach me for this,

especially as it is not certain that many people

would have found it out, if I had not told

them.

Of the design and structure of this poem, as

a work of imagination, and also of its execution,

it does not become me to speak ; but as various

complimentary remarks on its philosophy were

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Brief Commentary. xi

made in England and America (more especi-

ally in the Times, and in the critical essays of

so accomplished a genius as Edgar Allan Poe)

— remarks to which I never offered any due

acknowledgment or reply — a few words may

now be permitted me in explanation.

The philosophy of Orion gives the widest

'
'

Scope to nature, natural action, and genius ; it

advocates the broadest views, and most ener-

getic progress, with a belief in the constant ad-

vancement of mankind, here and hereafter. It

may be said that the converse of all this can be

shown by the quotation of certain passages ;

and the words of the starving man gathering

gum from the lentisk-trees have been cited :

'
Like the hot springs
That boil themselves away, and serve for nought,

Which yet must have some office, rightly used,

Man hath a secret source for some great end,

Which by delay seems wasted. Ignorance
Chokes us, and Time outwits us.'-^B. canto i. iii.
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xii Brief Commentary.

This is admitted ; nor need I be ashamed to

confess that, like many others, I have myself
had hours, even days, of extreme despondency
(never of despair), during which the foregoing

lines were realized to a degree that, had I then

been dying, might have induced me to choose

those words for my epitaph. But garbled ex-

tracts are no proof of a desponding philoso-
phy, nor of anything else in most cases. The
morbid is burnt up in the sanguine. With all

vigorous natures these periods of gloom and

hopelessness are very brief; and for every
single passage of such tendency in '
Orion,' a

dozen may be found of the opposite : and this

belief in the pre-arranged and constant progress

of man is expressly developed in the opening

of Book iii. Canto i. Although it may be true,

in some rare instances, that —

'
The man, who for his race might supersede
The work of ages, dies worn out — not used !'
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Brief Commentary, xiii

Yet it is shown that his influence continues :—

'
The circle widens as the world spins round
The earth hath tough rind, but a subtle heart
His soul works on, while he sleeps 'neath the grass.'

The opening of the last Canto, and the con-

cluding Song of Orion, after death, while taking

his station among the constellated thrones, cer-

tainly place the philosophy of the poem beyond

question as a whole, whatever speeches or re-

marks may be cited from Akinetos.

With similar design, the Intellectual and

the Sensuous have each been given a fair and

open field. Detached passages might be found
equally forcible on each side ; and in order to

render this equi-vocal philosophy not equivocal

in the dishonest sense of the word, a certain sage,

in opposition to the courtiers of Oinopions palace,

hazards an opinion on this all-important point,

' That human nerves,
And what they wrought, were wondrous as the mind,
And in the eye of Zeus none could decide
Which held the higher place.' — B. ii. canto i.
xiv Brief Commentary.

If the temeritous sage, by promulgating the

above opinion, became a martyr to the hypo-
critical mind of society {i. e. the outward pre-

tences of minds that know better), nobody can

find anything unusual in such a result, down to

this very day of our self-deluding civilization.

The early ages in their philosophies, their

'
loves and wars,' only display the same generic
characteristics as at present — the American
Civil War, and the late Franco- Prussian fero-

cities being a perfect settlement of the question

of Christian authorities and influence ; — and
those who have seen savage life as well as

the highest modern refinements, can but have

observed that the savage man and the ci-

vilized man are identical in first principles.

There is only a sheet of papyrus between them.

When the great sanitary reformer, the late Dr.

Southwood Smith, wrote his Philosophy of

Health, and his work on The Divine Govern-
 Brief Commentary. xv

ment, one may clearly see that opinions on the

right estimation of our corporeal conditions

must have passed through his mind, which, had

he given them a more palpable enunciation,
with a practical bearing, would have caused the

loss of all his private practice as a physician.

But as it is, '

his soul works on, while he sleeps
'neath the grass ;'
and we may also say with
the author of the Songs before Sunrise, —
'
Thou art not dead, as these are dead who live

Full of blind years, a sorrow-shaken kind :

* • * »

The savour of heroic lives that were,

Is it not mixed into thy common air ?
!'
The sense of them is shed about thee now

Whether the hypocrisies of a fundamental

part of the present social scheme be unwise or

wise, with a view to keeping the born-savage

In order, a great change in our so-called 'science

of ethics,' as far as relates both to '

frail ' and
forcible animal nature, will have to accompany,
xvi Brief Commentary.

if it does not precede, the Church of the Future.

And it is clear to me, that instead of resisting

the idea of our Darwinian '

promotion,' we
should gratefully and hopefully regard it as

promissory of a series of higher grades for

ever-aspiring humanity.

From time immemorial, though this mono-

mania of superstition seemed to reach its height

in the cruel self-martyrdom of old monastic

devotees and their deluded victims, the system

of '
mortifying the flesh,' and the general view
taken of the human body, with all its immut-
able laws and functions, has continued down
to the present day. Notwithstanding all the
knowledge of physiology, and the psychology
inextricably involved in our corporeal fabric

and conditions, the same dead-set against man's

body is constantly made. Man seems deter-
mined to know better than his Maker, and not
merely to regulate dogmatically, but altogether
 Brief Commentary. xvii

to check, if rtot expunge, some of the Divine

ordinatioiis. Among the latest signs of this

asceticism, we may point to an article that has

just appeared — and in one of the most intel-

lectual of our periodicals — entitled The Fleshly

School of Poetry. Supposing there were such
a school, why should it not exist as well as

schools that preach exclusively of the spirit ?

Are we gravely to be told, at this day, that

'the flesh, and the devil,' are almost cognate

terms, and that the spirit and the devil never

cause men to commit evil deeds ?

The direct tendency of my fable, as far as

it relates to the passion of love, is clearly shown

to advocate that combination of the intellectual

and the sensuous which is most conducive to

the noble progress and happiness of special

natures.

Thus, when a critique which appeared in the

Athenceum (written by the greatest poetess of

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xviii Brief Commentary.

the age — of any age — need I say, Mrs. Eliza-

beth Barrett Browning ?) designated '

Orion
as a '
spiritual epic,' it might with equal truth
have been termed a corporeal epic, or one of
mere external action. It is both. The life of

Orion begins amidst ponderous substance,' and

'

is continually employed in physical action, when

not absorbed with the converse. The poem is

intended equally to advocate the real and the

ideal, the precursive dream, theory, or shadow

— and the substance and action which originate

therefrom. The opinion that it was a '

spiritual

epic' is a remarkable illustration of the tone

which a highly-refined spirit can give to all

that it contemplates; and how it can touch

what the world calls '
pitch ' without soiling the
pearl and coral of the fairy fingers. Howbeit,
the writer of this poem having been a sailor in

many a stormy sea, intends to stick fast by the

timbers of our mortal vessel.

 XIX

After the allusions to 'ponderous substance'

and other bodily forces, the reader, if he has

duly observed my design, ought not to be sur-

prised on reverting to a passage in the first

Canto, commendng with-^

' " Hunter of Shadows, thou thyself a Shade,"
Be comforted in this, — that substance holds

No higher attributes,' 5z:c.

The elucidatory justification which follows may

not, by everybody, be considered as satisfac-

tory ; siiffice it for the writer that he honestly

thought, and thinks, it was so.

I have been very frequently requested, par-

ticularly by letters from total strangers, to make
some explanations of this kind concerning the

design of '
Orion,' and have always resisted,

simply because it seemed fo me that It was

plain enough, or at least open to such study
as any epic poem, at all worthy of the name,
mi^ht fairly ask of all lovers of poetry. I
XX Brief Commentary.

trust, however, that my tardy consent will not

have made any of my old readers, in various
parts of the world, angry or indifferent, since

I have ever regarded an intellectual sym-

pathy as the highest treasure an author can
obtain, — the only heartfelt reward of all his

labours.

As for the allegorical vein running through

the poem, transparently enough, no one need

be in the least troubled about that matter, if

the underworking be not sufficiently obvious.

A child may read the story. And here let me

borrow Hazlitt's excellent and graphic settle-

ment of the question. '

Some people,' he re-

marks, in his Lecture on the English Poets,

'
will say that all this may be very fine, but that

they cannot understand it on account of the

allegory. They are afraid of the allegory, as if

they thought it would bite them. They look

at it as a child looks at a painted dragon, and

 Brief Commentary. xxi

think that it will strangle them in its shining

folds. This is very idle. If they do not

meddle with the allegory, the allegory will not

meddle with them. Without minding it at all,

'
the whole is as plain as a pike-stafF. It might
as well be pretended that we cannot see Pous-

sin's pictures for the allegory.'

In a few instances, it is admitted, a certain

fabulous aureola may render a passage not so

clear to the understanding as if it had been ela

borated in prose. There are occasions in ima-

ginative compositions in which it is best not to

strive to be too definite, because some designs

are destroyed by a hard outline ; and also be-

cause poems often suggest one thing to one

person, and another thing to another person, by

the variety of our memories and special natures,

— and, in certain cases, poems suggest

' things

differing in some degree from the poet's mean-

ing and intention.
 '

xxii Brief Commentary.

I must add one remark to this, which of

course will be regarded by most persons as

heretical ; viz. that in many instances, the mo-

ment a poetical passage is '
laid upon the table

for analysis, the soul vanishes ! The moving

principle, the partner for life, is gone. This
opinion obviously does not refer to philoso-

phical, didactic, or what are called '

practical

poems,' but only tp those which depend, like

most first impressions, upon sympathy. In Ife

manner, the silly fellow who pauses in reading

a beautiful lyric in order to examine if the

rhymes suit his eye or his ear, need not read

any more, for the essence of that beauty has
evaporated for ever. In fine, it is quite certain,

that what has been so constantly said about

poets being born poets, applies in a similar
sense to their readers. Many people, and of
very great understanding in other respects, are

born with the impossibility of understanding

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Brief Commentary. xxiii

poetry in its highest essence, or even perhaps

in its humblest, if it be true poetry. The Ele-

phant who was introduced to Pegasus, said

there must be a mistake somewhere
The reader may smile to hear, or to re-

member, that in the preliminary Note to the

early ecfitions of '

Orion ' it was said that the

poem was, in several respects, '

an experiment
upon the mind of a nation.' But considering
that about that period the far-sweeping tide of

broad-farce literature, caricature, and burlesque,

had set in, and that it has continued with accu-

mulating and desecrating influence during the

last twenty years and more, my '

experiment
has been a success in the main. If the super-

stitious asceticism of ancient dogmas and le-

gends still holds out in its old stone fortresses,

•^
Orion ' has nevertheless starred the rock, and

let in some clear rays of healthy light.

'
But because,' writes Thomas Hobbes,
xxiv Brief Commentary.

'
there be many men called Criticks, and Wits,
and Virtuosi, that are accustomed to censure
the Poets, and most of them of divers Judg-

ments : how is it possible (you'll say) to please

them all ? Yes, very well ; if the Poem be as

it should be. For, men can judge what's Good

that know not what is Best. For he that can
judge what is best must have considered all

these things (though they be almost innumer-

able) that concur to make the reading of an

Heroick Poem pleasant. Whereof I'll name

as many as shall come into my mind.' * Now,
while it will be obvious that no writer can be
so purblind and rash in self-opinion as to as-

sume that even the majority must regard his

work as good, there is one of the conditions

set down by Hobbes as fourth in his list,

to which I do make claim, viz. '

The Justice

* Preface to the Translation of the I/tads and Odysses,

by Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury. 1686.

 Brief Commentary. xxv

and Impartiality :of the Poet.' The last he

mentions is, '
Amplitude of the Subject ;'
— but
this, of course, is in the nature of things, and
the 'servant of Nature' can only lay claim to

a profound and reverent sympathy.

In the early editions of '
Orion,' a sort of

explanatory apology was offered for employing

the old Greek names in a Greek fable, on the

grounds that '

the Gods and Goddesses of an-
cient Italy were perfectly distinct from those of
the ancient Hellenic races ;'
and that I had also
adopted the latter 'with a view to getting rid

of commonizing associations.' The Bacchus

and Neptune, for instance, of the present day,

are singularly vulgar and technical non-repre-

sentatives of the beautiful lacchus and the

grand Poseidon, — while Phoibos, Aphrodite,

and Artemis may be truly said to be utterly

burlesqued, and only worthy of the places in

which they are most commonly found. The

xxvi Briif Commentary.

present Poem of elaborate design was the first

that ventured to give, with one or two discre-

tionary variations, the old Greek names : but

there is no need to apologize for this at the

present time.

It only remains to offer a word concerning

several amusing speculations and idle fancies

that have been extensively promulgated, and

which have enabled those who know nothing of
the poem to seem to say something. I allude

to the unusual circumstance (which ought to be

common enough with all those authors who
could so much better afford it) of the book
having been given away in the first instance.

As there was scarcely any instance of an Epic

Poem attaining any reasonable circulation dur-

ing its author's lifetime (qertainly not up to

that period, with the exception of Voltaire's

'Henriade'), the first, second, and third editions

of 'Orion' were published gratuitously, — that

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is, they were published at a nominal price, the

least coin of the realm, to avoid the trouble

and greatly additional expense of forwarding

presentation copies ; which, moreover, are not

always particularly desired by those who receive

them. After the third edition, there were se-

veral editions at a price which amply remune-

rated the publisher, and left the author no

great loser. There has also been an Australian

edition, and, I believe, more than one in Ame-
rica ; but all have long been out of print.

The present is the first Library Edition,

and has the author's latest, and probably his

final corrections. Two lines have been erased

from the poem as previously published, and
some forty lines have been added to the last

Canto. Hail ! and farewell

R. H. H.

London, November 1871.

ORION.
BOOK I.
 BOOK I.

CANTO THE FIRST.

Ye rocky heights of Chios, where the snow,

Lit by the far-off and receding moon.

Now feels the soft dawn's purpling twilight creep

Over your ridges, while the mystic dews

Swarm down, and wait to be instinct with gold

And solar fire !

— ye mountains waving brown
With thick-winged woods, and blotted with deep

caves

In secret places ; and ye paths that stray

E'en as ye list ; what odours and what sighs
Tend your sweet silence through the star-showered

night.
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4 ORION. [book I.

Like memories breathing of the Goddess forms

That left your haunts, yet with the day return !

And still more distant through the grey sky floats

The faint blue fragment of the dead moon's shell

Not dead indeed, but vacant, since 't is now
Left by its bright Divinity. The snows
On steepest heights grave tints of dawn receive,

And mountains from the misty woodland rise

More clear of outline, while thick vapours curl

From off the valley streams, and spread away,

Till one by one the brooks and pools unveil
Their cold blue mirrors. From the great repose

What echoes now float on the listening air

Now die away — and now again ascend.

Soft ringing from the valleys, caves, and groves,

Beyond the reddening heights .' 'Tis Artemis come

With all her buskined Nymphs and sylvan rout,

To scare the silence and the sacred shades.

And with dim music break their rapturous trance

But soon the music swells, and as the gleam

CANTO I.] ORION.

Of sunrise tips the summits tremblingly,

And the dense forests on their sides exchange

Shadows opaque for warm transparent tones.

Though still of depth and grandeur, nearer grows

The revelry ; and echoes multiply

Behind the rocks and uplands, with the din
Of reed-pipe, timbrel, and clear silver horns,

With cry of Wood-nymphs, Fauns, and chasing

hounds.

Afar the hunt in vales below has sped.

But now behind the wooded mount ascends.
Threading its upward mazes of rough boughs.
Mossed trunks and thickets, still invisible.

Although its jocund music fills the air

With cries and laughing echoes, mellowed all

By intervening woods and the deep hills.

The scene in front two sloping mountain sides

Displayed ; in shadow one, and one in light.

The loftiest on its summit now sustained

The sun-beams, raying like a mighty wheel
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6 ORION. [book I.

Half seen, which left the front-ward surface dark

In its full breadth of shade ; the coming sun

Hidden as yet behind : the other mount,

Slanting opposed, swept with an eastward face,

Catching the golden light. Now, while the peal

Of the ascending chase told that the rout

Still midway rent the thickets, suddenly

Along the broad and sunny slope appeared

The shadow of a stag that fled across.

Followed by a Giant's shadow with a spear

'
Hunter of Shadows, thou thyself a Shade,'
Be comforted in this, — that substance holds
No higher attributes ; one sovran law
Alike develops both, and each shall hunt

Its proper object, each in turn commanding

The primal impulse, till gaunt Time become

A Shadow cast on Space — to fluctuate
Waiting the breath of the Creative Power
To give new types for substance yet unknown :

So from faint nebulae bright worlds are born ;

So worlds return to vapour. Dreams design

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CANTO I.] ORION.

Most solid lasting things, and from the eye

That searches life, death evermore retreats.

Substance unseen, pure mythos, or mirage.

The shadowy chase has vanished ; round the swell
Of the near mountain sweeps a bounding stag

Round whirls a god-like Giant close behind

O'er a fallen trunk the stag with slippery hoofs

Stumbles — his sleek knees Kghtly touch the

grass

Upwards he springs — but in his forward leap,

The Giant's hand hath caught him fast beneath

One shoulder tuft, and, lifted high in air.

Sustains ! Now Phoibos' chariot rising bursts

Over the summits with a circling blaze.

Gilding those frantic antlers, and the head

Of that so glorious Giant in his youth,

Who, as he turns, the form succinct beholds

Of Artemis, — her bow, with points drawn back,

A golden hue on her white rounded breast
Reflecting, while the arrow's ample barb

Gleams o'er her hand, and at his heart is aimed.

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8 ORION. [book I.

The Giant lowered his arm — away the stag

Breast forward plunged into a thicket near

The Goddess paused, and dropt her arrow's point

Raised it again — and then again relaxed

Her tension, and while slow the shaft came gliding

Over the centre of the bow, beside

Her hand, and gently drooped, so did the knee

Of that heroic shape do reverence

Before the Goddess. Their clear eyes had ceased

To flash, and gazed with earnest softening light.

His stature, though colossal, scarcely seemed

Beyond the heroic mould, such symmetry
His form displayed ; and in his countenance
A noble honesty and ardour beamed.
With child-like faith, unconscious of themselves.

And of the world, its vanities and guile.

Eyes of deep blue, large waves of chestnut locks,

A forehead wide, and every feature strong.

Yet without heaviness or angry line.

Had he and ; as he knelt, a trustful smile

That dreads no consequence, and quite forgets

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All danger, lightly played around his mouth.

Meanwhile the Nymphs and all the sylvan troop,

Like wave on wave when coloured by the clouds.

Pell-mell come rolling round the mountain side,

And crowd about the Goddess, who commands

The hunt to pause. At once the music stops

And all the hounds, with wistful looks, crouch down.

'
Young Giant of the woods,' said Artemis,
'
The bow, that ne'er till now its glittering points

Bent back without recoil and whirring twang

That sound a shaft's flight, and that flight a death
For once to its quiescent shape returns

Unsated. Midst these woodland vales and heights

Seldom I rove, but from my train have Nymphs
Permission sought full oft the chase to lead

Among these echoes and these fleeting shades.

Thee have they seen, as now, bounding beyond

Their swiftest hounds to bear the stag away.

As thou once more hadst surely done this morn.

But for my presence. Say, then, whence thou

spring'st
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Where dwell'st thou — how art called — and wherefore

thus

Dar'st thou the sports of these my Wood-nymphs mar?'

'
Goddess !'
the Giant answered, '
I am sprung
From the great Trident-bearer, who sustains

And rocks the floating earth, and from the nymph

A huntress joying in the dreamy woods
Euryal6. Little am I wont to speak.
Save to my kindred giants, who in caves

Amid yon forest dwell, beyond the rocks.

Or the Cyclopes ; neither know what words

Best suit a Goddess' ear. I and the winds
Do better hold our colloquies, when shadows,
After long hunting, vanish from my sight

Into some field of gloom. I am called " Orion,"

And for the sport I have so often marred,

'T was for my own I did it, but without

A thought of whose the Nymphs, or least design

Of evil. Wherefore, Artemis, pardon me

Or if again thou 'It bend thy bow, first let me
To great Poseidon offer up a prayer.
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That his divine waves with absorbing arms

May take my body rather than dull earth.'

With attitude relaxed from queenly pride

To yet more queenly grace, the shaft she placed

Within her burnished quiver, and the bow

A Nymph unstrung, while with averted face
As gazing down the woodland vista slopes,

Which oft her bright orb silvered through black shades

When midnight throbbed to silence — Artemis asked,

•
And who are those thy brothers of the cave.
And why with the Cyclopes dost consort ?'

'
My wood-friends all of ancestry renowned.

Claim for their sires heroes, or kings, or gods

And two of them have seen the ways of men ;'

Orion answered, while with uplifted breast,

Like a smooth wave o'ergilded by the morn.
High heaving ere it cast itself ashore,

Buoyant, elate, and massively erect.

He stood. ' They are my kindred thus descended.

And, though not brothers, yet we recognise

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A sort of brotherhood in this decree

Df fate, or Zeus, — that nature filled our frames

With larger share of bodily elements

Than others mortal born. Seven giants we.

Of different minds, and destinies, and powers,

Yet glorified alike in corporal forms.

Few my years, O Artemis few my needs,

are !

Though large my fancied wants, and small my know-

ledge

Save of one art. Earth's deep metallic veins

Hephaistos taught me to refine and forge

To shapes that in my fancy I devised.

For use or ornament. To the lame God

Grateful I felt, nor knew what thanks to give

But, ere a shadow-hunter I became

A dreamer of strange dreams by day and night
For him I built a palace underground.

Of iron, black and rough as his own hands.

Deep in the groaning disembowelled earth,

The tower-broad pillars and huge stanchions,

And slant supporting wedges I set up,

By the Cyclopes aided — at my voice

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3

Which through the metal fabric rang and pealed

In orders echoing far, like thunder-dreams.

With arches, galleries, and domes all carved

So that great figures started from the roof

And lofty coignes, or sat and downward gazed
On those who strode below and gazed above

I filled it ; in the centre framed a hall

Central in that, a throne ; and for the light.

Forged mighty hammers that should rise and fall

On slanted rocks of granite and of flint,

Worked by a torrent, for whose passage down

A chasm I hewed. And here the God could take,

Midst showery sparks and swathes of broad gold fire.

His lone repose, lulled by the sounds he loved ;

Or, casting back the hammer-heads till they choked

The water's course, enjoy, if so he wished.

Midnight tremendous, silence, and iron sleep.'

Thus in rough phrase, and with no other grace

Than forthright truth, Orion told his tale

Then smiling looked around upon the Nymphs

Till all their bright eyes glowed and turned aside
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And then he gazed down at the couchant hounds,

Whose eyes and ears grew interrogative,

For well the fleet-heeled robber they all knew.

Now spake an Ocean-nymph with sea-green eyes :

'
Goddess, he hath not told thee all ; his skill

And strength, unaided — singing as he wrought

Scooped out the bay of Zankl6, framed its port

Banked up the rampire that forbids the surge

To break o'er Sicily ; and a temple built

To the sea-deities.' ' I had forgot ;'

Orion said :
'
These things, long since were done.'

'
Hunter, I pardon thee, and from my Nymphs
All memory of late offence I take,

As though they ne'er had seen thee :' Artemis said,

With a sweet voice and look. ' Retire awhile.

Ye sylvan troop, to yonder deep-mossed dell

And thou, Orion, henceforth in my train

Thy station take.' More had the Goddess said.

But o'er the whiteness of a neck that ne'er

One tanned kiss from the ardent sun received.

CANTO I.J ORION. 15

A soft suffusion came ; and waiting not

Reply, her silver sandals glanced i' the rays,

As doth a lizard playing on a hill.

And on the spot where she that instant stood.

Nought but the bent and quivering grass was seen.

Above the isle of Chios, night by night.

The clear moon lingered ever on her course.

Covering the forest foliage, where it swept

In its unbroken breadth along the slopes.

With placid silver ; edging leaf and trunk

Where gloom clung deep around ; but chiefly sought
With melancholy splendour to illume

The dark-mouthed caverns where Orion lay

Dreaming among his kinsmen. Ere the breath

Of Phoibos' steeds rose from the wakening sea.

And long before the immortal wheel-spokes cast

Their hazy apparition up the sky

Behind the mountain peaks, pale Artemis left

Her fainting orb, and touched the loftiest snows

With feet as pure, and white, and crystal-cold.

In the sweet misty woodland to rejoin

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Orion with her Nymphs. And he was blest

In her divine smile, and his life began

A new and higher period, nor the haunts

Of those his giant brethren sought he now.

But shunned them and their ways, and slept alone

Upon a verdant rock, while o'er him floated

The clear moon, causing music in his brain

Until the skylark rose. He felt 't was love.

END OF CANTO I.
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ORION.

CANTO THE SECOND.

Midst ponderous substance had Orion's life

Dawned, and his acts were massive as his form.

Those his companions of the forest owned

Like corporal forces, but their several minds

And aims were not as his. The Worker he,

The builder-up of things, and of himself

His wood-friends were Rhexergon, of descent

Royal, heroic — breaker down of things
A coaster, skilled in fishing and in ships ;

Hormetes, arch-backed like the forest boar,

Short-haired, harsh-voiced, of fierce and wayward

will ;
—
c
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Harpax, with large loose mouth, and restless hand,

Son of the God of Folly by a maid
Who cursed him — and the child, an idiot else,

Grew keen, in rapine taking huge delight ;

Forceful Biastor; — smooth Encolyon,

The son of Hermes, yet in all things slow.

With sight oblique and forehead slanting high,

The dull retarder, chainer of the wheel ;

And Akinetos — who, since first the dawn

Sat on his marble forehead, ne'er had gazed

Onward with purpose of activity,

Nor felled a tree, nor hollowed out a cave.

Nor built a roof, nor aided any work.

Nor heaved a sigh, nor cared for anything

Save contemplation of the eternal scheme

The Great Unmoved — a giant much revered.
Forgotten by their sires in other loves.

Here had th^ chiefly dwelt, and in these caves.

Save two, Encolyon and the Great Unmoved,

Who came from Ithaca. The islanders

Had driven them thence ; and this the idle cause.

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The barren stony land had ne'er produced

Enough of grain for food ; but by the skill

Of their artificers in iron and brass,

And by their herds of goats and cloud-woolled sheep,

With other isles the Ithacans exchanged,

And each was well supplied. Encolyon's brain

Some goddess — and 't was Discord, as results

Made plain — one night inspired with sage alarms,

And straight the King of Ithaca he sought.

Imploring him, '

if that he duly prized

A heaven-blest crown and subjects all content,

To drive the ships, sent from the neighbouring isles.

Forth from his port, or sink the grain they brought

Else would his people, over-fed, grow slothful,

Rude, and importunate with new conceits,

And soon degenerating in their race,

Neglect their proper island, and their King.

But, on its own resources nobly forced.

Then would the stony Ithaca become

Great in herself by self-dependent power.'

To this the King gave ear, and on the shore

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He, with Encolyon, for an omen prayed

And soon along the horizontal line

Rising, they saw a threatening rack of clouds.

Black as the fleet from Aulis 'gainst doomed Troy,

In after-time well known. Encolyon cried,

'
Behold propitious anger on the isle.

For its wrong doings !'

Wherefore all the grain

From friendly islands they, with scorn, sent back.

A famine soon in Ithaca spread wide,

And hungry people prowled about at night.

Then clamoured, and took arms — their war-cr>',

!'
'
Bread
Thus was the dormant evil of their hearts

Attested, and the King his people knew.

And bitterly their want of reverence felt.

Encolyon, in his stature tall confiding.

Though Akinetos warned him not to move,

Went gravely forth the rebel throngs to meet.

The politic giant's staid demeanour awed

The angry mass at first, and with their eyes

They seemed to listen, doubtful of their ears.

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So puzzling was his speech. He to the King

And his chief heroes then discoursed apart,

Convincing them that all the wheels went well.

With head bent sideways from the light, he looked

Like to some statesman of consummate mind
Working an ancient problem ; and then spake
In language critical, final, stolid, astute,

Concluding with affectionate appeal

To common sense, and all we hold most dear.

'
Keep down —put back—prevent ! O Gods, prevent
!'

This was his famous saying. Now the King

Led out his patriot army ; but ere long

The army hungered too — the King was slain

Encolyon fled, and hid within a ship.

Forthwith a crowd to Akinetos thronged,

Crying, '
What say'st thou, giant, who art wise .''

What shall we do V And Akinetos said,

'
Great hunger is a single thing — one want
Satisfy that, and strength will be acquired

To multiply desire — wants without end !

Therefore be patient : leave all else to fate.'

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The people, stubborn as their own dry rocks

Enraged as the wild winds — to reason deaf

And also wanting food — cursed his calm thought
Cast stones upon him, and had surely slain

But that without resistance he bore all.

And without word ; so they, being tired, relented.

And bore him to the ship, where, in the hold,

Encolyon lay at length with in-drawn breath.

To Chios sailed the ship. The Ithacans
Chose a new king, and traded with the isles.

In this companionship Orion's bent

Of nature had not merged ; his working spirit

Sought from the fallen trunks and rocks to frame

Rude image of his fancies, till at length

He won Hephaistos' love, from whom he learnt

The god's own solid art. But this attained,

And proved by mastery, a restless dream

Dawned on his soul which he desired to shape.
Yet knew not how, nor saw its like around.

But vaguely felt at times, and thought he saw

In shadows. Wherefore through the forest depths,
CANTO n.J ORION. 23,

Through vales and over hills, a hunter fleet,

He chased his unknown hopes; and when the stag.

Or goat, or ounce, he overtook and seized.

Ever he set them free, and e'en the bear

And raging boar his spear refrained to strike,,

Save by its shadow, as they roaring fled.

The bodily thing became to him as nought

When gained ; nor could past efforts satisfy;

Now from a Goddess did he quickly learn

The mystery of his mood, and saw how vain

His early life had been, and felt new roots

Quicken within him, branches new that sprang

Aloft, and with expanding energies
Tingled, and for immortal fruit prepared.

She met him in her beauty. Oft when dawn

With a grave red looked through the ash-pale woods^

And quick dews singing fell, while with a pulse

As quick, Orion stood beneath the trees.

And gazed upon the uncertain scene, — his heart

Forewarned his senses with a rapturous thrill.

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He turned, and from the misty green afar,

In silence did the Goddess' train appear

Rounding a thicket. Slow the crowding hounds

Tript circling onward ; Nymphs with quivered backs,

And clear elastic limbs of nut-brown hue,

Or like tanned wall-fruit, ripening and compact

And short-horned Fauns down-gazing on their pipes

And Oceanides with tresses green

Plaited in order, or by golden nets

In various device confined, each bearing

Shell-lyres and pearl-mouthed trumpets of the sea

Dryads and Oreads decked with oak-leaf crowns
And heath-bells, dancing in the fragrant air ;

And Sylvans, who, half Faun, half shepherd, lead

A grassy life, with cymbals in each hand

Pressed cross-wise on the breast, waiting the sign ;

Attendant round a pale-gold chariot moved :

By two large-antlered milk-white stags 't was drawn.

Their sleek hides 'neath the fine dews quivering,
In delicate delight. Above them rose

The fair-haired Goddess, onward softly gliding,

As though erect she stood on wafted clouds.

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She smiled not ; but the crescent on her brow

Gleamed with a tender light. He knew 't was love.

Giddy with happiness Orion's spirit

Now danced in air; his heart tumultuous beat,

Too high a measure and too wild to taste
The fulness that he dreamed encompassed him,
But he could not encompass, nor scarce dare
Clearly to recognise. And Artemis smiled
Upon him with a radiance silver sweet.

And o'er his forehead oft her hand she waved,

Till visions of the purity of love

Above him floated, and his being filled.

Language of Gods she taught him; and portrayed.

Far as 't was fitting, and from all gross acts

Refined, their several wondrous histories :

But chief of all, in accents grandly sad,

She told of kindness by Poseidon done,

His ocean sire, when swan-necked Leto bearing
Twins of bright destiny and heirs of heaven
Herself and Phoibos — cruelly was driven
26 ORION. [book I.

Through the bleak ways of earth, and found no rest,

Pursued by serpent jealousy, for Zeus

Had loved fair Leto ; how Orion's sire

A floating isle that sometimes 'neath the waves

Drifted unseen, sometimes showed watery rocks,

Smote with his trident, and, majestical,

Delos arose — stood — and gave a home

fast

To fainting Leto,— and a place of birth

For — the Sun, and loved Orb.
deities his

The mysteries, worship, and the sacrifice

Of her Ephesian Temple, she displayed

Before his wondering thought, and oft he knelt

In solitude, when of its hundred columns.

Each reared by kingly hands, wakeful he dreamed.

And felt his Goddess love too high removed.
The ocean realm below, and all its caves

And bristling vegetation, plant and flower,

And forests in their dense petrific shade

Where the tides moan for sleep which never comes ;

All this she taught him, and continually

Knowledge of human life made clear to him

Through facts and fables. He the intricate web
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Of nature, gradually of himself began

To unwind, and see that gods and men were one

Born of one element, imperfect both.
Yet aspirant, and with perfection's germ
Somewhere within. He brooded o'er these things.

One day, at noontide, when the chase was done.

Which with unresting speed since dawn had held.

The woods were all with golden fires alive,

And heavy limbs tingled with glowing heat.

Sylvans and Fauns at full length cast them down,
And cooled their flame-red faces in the grass.

Or o'er a streamlet bent, and dipped their heads

Deep as the top hair of their pointed ears

While Nymphs and Oceanides retired

To grots and sa,cred groves, with loitering steps.

And bosoms swelled and throbbing, like a bird's

Held between human hands. The hounds with -tongues

Crimson, and lolling hot upon the green.

And outstretched noses, flatly crouched ; their skins

Clouded or spotted, like the field-bean's flower,

Or tiger-lily, painted the wide lawns.

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Orion wandered deep into a vale

Alone ; from all the rest his steps he bent,

Thoughtful, yet with no object in his mind

Languid, yet restless. Near a hazel copse,

Whose ripe nuts hung in clusters twined with grapes.

He paused, down gazing, till upon his sense

A fragrance stole, as of ambrosia wafted

Through the warm shades by some divinity

Amid the woods. With gradual step he moved

Onward, and soon the poppied entrance found
Of a secluded bower. He entered straight.

Unconsciously attracted, and beheld

His Goddess love, who slept — her robe cast off.

Her sandals, bow and quiver, thrown aside.

Yet with her hair still braided, and her brow

Decked with her crescent light. Awed and alarmed
By loving reverence — which dreads offence
E'en though the wrong were never known, and feels

Its heart's religion for religion's self,

Besides its object's claim — swift he retired.

The entrance gain'd, what thoughts, what visions his \

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What danger had he 'scaped, what innocent crime,

Which Artemis might yet have felt so deep

He blest the God of Sleep who thus had held

Her senses ! Yet, what loveliness had glanced

Before his mind — scarce seen ! Might it not be

Illusion ? — some bright shadow of a hope

First dawning ? Would not sleep's God still exert

Safe influence, if he once more stole back

And gazed an instant ? 'T were not well to do.

And would o'erstain with doubt the accident

Which first had led him there. He dare not risk

The chance 't were not illusion oh, if true !

While thus he murmured hesitating, slow.

As slow and hesitating he returned

Instinctively, and on the Goddess gazed

With adoration and delicious fear.

Lingering he stood ; then pace by pace retired,

Till in the hazel copse sighing he paused.

And with most earnest face, and vacant eye.

And brow perplexed, stared at a tree. His hands
Were clenched; his burning feet pressed down the soil.
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And changed their place. Suddenly he turned round,

And made his way direct into the bower.

There was a slumb'rous silence in the air,

By noon-tide's sultry murmurs from without

Made more oblivious. Not a pipe was heard
From field or wood ; but the grave beetle's drone
Passed near the entrance ; once the cuckoo called
O'er distant meads, and once a horn began

Melodious plaint, then died away. A sound

Of murmurous music yet was in the breeze.

For silver gnats that harp on glassy strings.

And rise and fall in sparkling clouds, sustained

Their dizzy dances o'er the seething meads.

With brain as dizzy stood Orion now

r the quivering bower. There rapturous he beheld.
As in a trance, not conscious of himself,
The perfect sculpture of that naked form.
Whose Parian whiteness and clear outline gleamed

In its own hue, nor from the foliage took

One tint, nor from his ample frame one shade.

Her lovely hair hung drooping, half unbound,

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Fair silken braids, fawn-tinted delicately,

That on one shoulder lodged their opening coil.

Her large round arms of dazzling beauty lay

In matchless symmetry and inviolate grace,

Along the mossy floor. At length he dropped

Softly upon his knees, his clasped hands raised

Above his head, till by resistless impulse

His arms descending, were expanded wide

Swift as a flash, erect the Goddess rose !

Her eyes shot through Orion, and he felt

Within his breast an icy dart. Confronted,

Mutely they stood, but all the bower was filled

With rising mist that chilled him to the bones.

Colder, as more obscure the space became

And ere the last collected shape he saw

Of Artemis, dispersing fast amid

Dense vapoury clouds, the aching wintriness

Had risen to his teeth, and fixed his eyes.

Like glistening stones in the congealing air.

END OF CANTO II.

 ORION.

CANTO THE THIRD.

O'er plastic nature any change may come,

Save that which seeks to crush the primal germ ;

And outward circumstance may breed within,

A second nature which o'ercomes the first.

But ne'er destroys, though dormant or subdued.

More toil for him whose wandering fancies teem
With too much life, and that vitality

Which eats into itself ; more toil of brain

And limb, sole panacea for the change

From tyrant senses to pure intellect.

Wherefore, his work redoubled, Artemis

Directs Orion's course ; not as before

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With grave and all-subduing tenderness,

While with white fingers midst his chestnut locks,

In her speech pausing, gently would she hang

Violets, as white as her own hands, and sprigs

Of Cretan dittany, whose nodding spikes

Flushed deeper pink beneath the sacred touch,
But with a penetrating influence
And front austere, as suiting best the Queen
Of maiden immortality. His soul
Strove hard to ascend and leave the earth behind

And by the Goddess' guidance every hour

Had its fixed duties. Husbandry of fields

She taught those giant hands, and how to raise

The sweetest herbs and roots, which now his food

Became nor ; taste and culture of the vine

Permitted, nor the flesh of slaughtered kine,

Nor forest boar, nor other thing that owns

An animal life. Lastly, she taught his mind

To reason on itself, far as the bounds

Of sense external furnish images

And types in attestation of each phase

Of man's internal sphere— large orbit space

D
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For varied lights — and also showed the way

Rightly his complex knowledge to employ,
And from their shadows trace substantial things,
Things back again to shadows — thus evolving
The principle of thought, from root to air.

This done, the blossom and the fruit of all

Was her prime truth, into each element

Of his life's feelings and its acts, to instil

'T was Love's divinest essence. In the soul,

Central its altar's flame for ever burns

Inviolate, and knowing not the change

Which time and fate o'er all else in the world

Bring speedily, or with a creeping film

That hides decay. Ever at peace it dwells

With its secure desires, which are soul-fed,

Nor on idolatrous devotion made'

Dependent, nor on will and wa3nvard moods

Of others ; 't is self-centred as a star,

And in the music of the conscious nerves.

Finds bliss, which e'en the slightest touch or look

Of this magnetic passion can create.

CANTO III.] ORION. 35

And render perfect. Nor doth absence break

The links of ecstasy, which from a heart
By a heart are drawn, but midst the glare of day.
The depths of night, alone, or in a crowd,

Imagination of love's balmy breath

Can to the spirit fashion and expand

Love's own pure rapture and delirium.

To this fixed sublimation there belong

No conflicts of pale doubts, anxieties.

Mean jealousies, anguish of heart-crushed slaves,

And forlorn faces looking out on seas

Of coming madness, from the stony gaps

Through which departed truth and bliss have fled ;

But high communion, and a rapturous sense

Of passion's element, whereof all life

Is made ; and therefore life should ne'er attain

A mastery o'er its pure creative light.

Midst chequered sunbeams through the glancing

woods
No more Orion hunted ; from the dawn

Till eve, within some lonely grot he sat.

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His thoughts reviewing, or beneath a Tock

Stood, back reclined, and watching the slow clouds,

As doth a shepherd in a vacant mood.

Oft to some highest peak would he ascend.

And gaze below upon his giant friends,

Who looked like moving spots, — so dark and small

And oft, upon some gjeen cliff ledge reclined.

Watch with sad eye the jocund chase afar

In the green landscape, where the quivering line

Led by the stag — who drew its rout behind

Of woodland shapes, confused as were their cries,

And sparkling bodies of fleet-chasing hounds,

Passed like a magic picture, and was gone.

His husbandry soon ceased ; he hated toil

Unvaried, ending always in itself.

And to the Goddess pleaded thoughtful hours

For his excuse, and indolent self-disgust.

Small profit found his thought ; his sympathies

Were driven inward, and corroded there.

Sometimes he wandered to the lowland fens.

Where the wild marcs toss their sharp manes i'the blast,
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CANTO III.] ORION. 37

And scour through washy reeds and hollows damp

Hardened in after-ages by long droughts
And midst the elements he sought relief

From inward tempests. Once for many hours,

In silence, only broken from afar

By the deep lowing of some straying herd,

Moveless and without speech he watched a hind

Weeding a marsh ; a brutish clod, half built,

Hog-faced and hog-backed with his daily toil,

Mudded and root-stained by the steaming ooze,

As he himself were some unnatural growth ;

Who yet, at times, whistled through broken fangs-*

'
Happier than I, this hind,' Orion thought.

Once tow'rds the city outskirts strayed his

steps.

With a half purpose some relief to seek

Midst haunts of men, and on the way he met

A mastic-sifter with his fresh-oiled face.
'
O friend,' Orion said, '
why dost thou walk

With shining cheek so sadly in the sun .''

Sighing, the melancholy man replied :

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'
The lentisk-trees have ceased to shed their gums
Their tears are changed for mine, since by that tree

Myself and children live. My toil stands still.

Hard lot for man, who something hath within

More than a tree, and higher than its top.

Or circling clouds, to live by a mere root

And its dark graspings ! Clearly I see this,

And know how 't is that toil unequally

Is shared on earth : but knowledge is not power

To a poor man alone 'gainst all the world.

Who, meantime, needs to eat. Like the hot springs

That boil themselves away, and serve for nought,
Which yet must have some office, rightly used,

Man hath a secret source, for some great end.

Which by delay seems wasted. Ignorance

Chokes us, and time outwits us.' — On he passed.
'
That soul hath greater cause for grief than I,'

Orion thought — yet not the less was sad.

Away disconsolate the giant went,

Now clambering forest slopes, now hurrying down

Precipitous brakes, tearing the berried boughs
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For food, scarce tasted, and oft gathering Husks,

Or wind-eggs of strange birds dropt in tKe fens.

To toss them in some rapid brook, and watch

Their wavering flight. But now a tingling sound
Wakes his dull ear !
— a distant rising drone
Upon the air, as of a wintry wind
And dry leaves rustle like a coming rain.

The wind is here ; and, following soon, descends

A tempest, which relieves its rage in tears.

Kneeling he stooped, and drank the hissing flood,

And wished the Ogygian deluge were returned

Then sat in very wilfulness beside

The banks while they o'erflowed, till starting up.

Bounding he sought his early giant friends.

Them, in their pastoral yet half-savage haunts

Found, as of yore, he with brief speech addressed,

And bade them to an orgie on the plain.

By rocks and forests amphitheatred.

Such greeting high they with a gleeful roar

Received, and forthwith rose to follow him,

Save Akinetos, who seemed not to hear,

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40 ORION. [book I.

But looked more grave still seated on a stone,

While they betook them to the plains below.

Thither at once they sped, and on the way

Rhexergon tore down boughs, while Harpax slew
Oxen and deer, more than was need ; and soon
On the green space Orion built the pile

With cross logs, underwood, dry turf and ferns.

And cast upon it fat of kine, and heaps

Of crisp dry leaves ; and fired the pile, and beat

A hollow shield, and called the Bacchic train.
Who brought their skins of wincj and loaded poles

That bent with mighty clusters of black grapes

Slung midway. In the blaze Orion threw

Choice gums and oils, that with explosion bright

Of broad and lucid flame alarmed the sky.

And fragrant spice, then set the Fauns to dance.

While whirled the timbrels, and the reed-pipes blew

A full-toned melody of mad delight.
Down came the Maenads from the sun-browned hills,

Down flocked the laughing Nymphs of groves and

brooks
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With whom came Opis, singing to a lyre,

And Sida, ivory-limbed and crowned with flowers.

High swelled the orgie ; and the roasting bulk

Of bull and deer was scarce distinguishable

'Mid the loud-crackling boughs that sprawled in flame

Now richest odours rose, and filled the air

Made glittering with the cymbals spun on high

Through jets of nectar upward cast in sport,

And raging with songs and laughter and wild cries !

In the first pause for breath and deeper draughts,

A Faun who on a quiet green knoll sat
Somewhat apart — sang a melodious ode.
Made rich by harmonies of hidden strings,

Unto bright Merop^ the island's pride,

And daughter of the king ; whereto a quire

Gave chorus, and her loveliness rehearsing,

Wished that Orion shared with her the throne.

The wine ran wastefully, and o'er the ears

Of the tall jars that stood too near the fire.

Bubbled and leapt, and streamed in crimsoning foam.

42 ORION. [book I.

Hot as the hissing sap of the green logs.

But none took heed of that, nor anything.

Thus song and feast, dance, and wild revelry.

Succeeded ; now in turn, now all at once

Mingling tempestuously. In a blind whirl

Around the fire Biastor dragged a rout

In osier bands and garlands ; Harpax fiercely

The violet scarfs and autumn-tinted robes

From Nymph and Maenad tore ; and by the hoofs
Hormetes seized a Satyr, with intent.

Despite his writhing freaks and furious face,

To dash him on a gong, but that amidst

The struggling mass Encolyon thrust a pine,

Heavy and black as Charon's ferrying pole,

O'er which they, like a bursting billow, fell.

At length, when night came folding round the

scene,

And golden lights grew red and terrible.

Flashed torch and spear, while reed-pipes deeper blew

Sonorous dirgings and melodious storm.

And timbrels groaned and jangled to the tones

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Of high-sustaining horns, — then round the blaze,

Their shadows brandishing afar and athwart

Over the level space and up the hills.

Six Giants held portentous dance, nor ceased

Till one by one in bare Bacchante arms.

Brim-full of nectar, helplessly they rolled

Deep down oblivion. Sleep absorbed their souls.

Region of Dreams ! ye seething procreant beds

For germs of life's solidities and power
Whether ye render up from other spheres
Our past or future beings to the ken

Of this brief state ; or, wiser, are designed.

With all your fleeting images confused,

To scatter, during half our mortal hours,

The concentrating passions and the thoughts

Which else were madness ; O maternal realm,

Console each troubled heart I —with opiate hand

Gently the senses charm, and lead astray
The vulture thoughts by thy blest phantasies.

Beckoning with vague yet irresistible smile t

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Sleep's God the prayer well pleased received, but

said,

'
Not such the meed of those who seek my courts

Through Bacchanalian orgies.' O'er the brain

Of fallen Orion visions suitable

Came with voluptuous gorgeousness, preceded

By a dim ode and ; as it nearer swelled,

In rapturous beauty Merop6 swept by.

Who on him gazed in ecstasy ! He strove

To rise — to speak — in vain. Yet still she gazed,

And still he strove ; till a voice cried in his ear,

'
Depart from Artemis !
— she loves thee not
Thou art too full of earth !'
He started awake
The piercing voice that cast him forth, still rang
Within his soul ; the vision of delight

Still ached along each nerve ; and slowly turning

A look perplexed around the spectral air.
Himself he found alone 'neath the cold sky
Of day-break — midst black ashes and ruins drear.

END OF CANTO III.

ORION.
BOOK II.
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BOOK II.

CANTO THE FIRST.

Beneath a tree, whose heaped-up burthen swayed

In the high wind, and made a hustling sound.

As of a distant host that scale a hill,

Hormetes and Encolyon gravely sat.

Sometimes they spake aloud, then murmured low,

Then paused as if perplexed, — looked round and
snuffed

The odour of wood-fires in the fresh forest air,

And then again addressed them to their theme.

Of cloudy-brained Orion they discoursed,

Lost to companionship, and led by dreams.

48 ORION. [book ii.

'
Once,' said Hormetes, '
he was great on earth ;

A worker in iron, and a hunter fleet

Who oft ran down the stag ; when, by some chance,

He pleaseth Artemis, and in her train.

All his high worth resigning, and his friends.

Dwindles to suit her fancy, and becomes

A giant of lost mind.' Encolyon thrust

His heavy heel into the soil, and spake
With serious gesture. ' Ever Orion sought
Some new device, some hateful onward deed
Through strange ways hurrying, scorning wise delay.

A victim fell he soon to Artemis

And her cold spells, for of his Ocean-sire

Orion's soul hath many a headlong tide.

But most of all her gleamy illusions fell

Upon his mind, which soon became a maze

For ghostly wanderings, and wild echoes heard
Through mists; and none could comprehend his

speech.'

'
Methought the orgie had recalled his sense.

So fairly he bespake us to the mirth ;

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So full and giant-like was his disport

Throughout the night,' Hormetes now rejoined.

Encolyon raised one hand :

— ' That orgie's waste

Of energies,' he murmured, '

and the hours
Far better given to rest, I much deplore.

Why joined I in the mirth ? — how was I lost

But when a regulated mind sedate.

Its perfect poise permits to waver aside

One tittle, certainly the man must fall

Somewhat in dignity, howe'er retrieved.

Hence, when a regulated '

Here his speech

Hormetes interrupted hastily.

Since, for his share, no self-reproach felt he.

'
I say the orgie, and his high disport.

Showed in Orion some return to sense

And when next morn I saw him near a brook.
Where I had stooped to drink — by him unseen
Down ran he like a panther close pursued.

Then stopped and listened —now looked up on high

Now stared into the brook as he would drink,
And drain its ripplings to the last white stone
Then went away forgetful. This methought,
E
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E'en by its wildness and its strenuous throes,

Savoured of hope, and of his safe return

To corporal sense, by shaking off these nets

Of moonbeams from his soul; but when I rose

And crossed his path, and bade him speak to me.

Again 't was all of vapour and dark thoughts.

Unlike the natural thoughts of bone and thews.
As we of yore were taught, and found enough

For all our needs, and for our songs and prayers.

Yet had he, as it seemed, some plan within,

And ever tended to some central point

In some place — nought more could I understand :

Wherefore I deem that he is surely mad.'

'
And so deem I,' rejoined Encolyon :

'
Ever advancing — working a new way
Tasking his heart, forgetful of his life

And present good — of madness the sure sign.'

While thus they talked, Harpax with speed ap-

proached,

Shouting his tidings — ' Merop^ loves Orion

Orion hath gone mad for Merop6 !'

CANTO I.] . ORION. 51-

The twain who had erewhile the cause discerned,

And signs of reason's loss, at this fresh news.

So little dreamed of from his recent mood,

A minute looked each other in the face
With sheep-like gravity, then backward sank
Against the tree, loud laughing. ' This were good,'
Checking his laughter with a straight-lined face,

Encolyon said, '

if not too deeply burning.

And that a power he hold within himself

To pause at will.' But Harpax quick rejoined,

'
I, for myself, would have this Merop6,
And force Oinopion render up his crown.

If ye will aid me.' ' We will give our aid,'

Hormetes cried
— 'and yet methinks this love

Affecting doubly, as by the self-same blow.

Might from some spells in the orgie-fumes arise .'

Ye marked, wise Akinetos would not move.'

'
Doubtless 't was wise,' Encolyon said. ' More care

Befits our steps.' They rose and strode away.

There is a voice that floats upon the breeze

From a heathed mountain ; voice of sad lament

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For love left desolate ere its fruits were known,

Yet by the memory of its own truth sweetened.
If not consoled. To this Orion listens

Now, while he stands within the mountain's shade.

'
The scarf of gold you sent to me, was bright
As any streak on cloud or sea, when morn
Or sunset light most lovely strives to be.

But that delicious hour can come no more,

When, on the wave-lulled shore, mutely we sat,

And felt love's power, which melted in fast dews

Our being and our fate, as doth a shower

Deep foot-marks left upon a sandy moor.

We thought not of our mountains and our streams,

Our birth-place, and the home of our life's date.

But only of our dreams — and heaven's blest face.

Never renew thy vision, passionate lover

Heart-rifled maiden — nor the hope pursue,

If once it vanish from thee ; but believe

'T is better thou shouldst rue this sweet loss ever

Than newly grieve, or risk another chill

On false love's icy river, which betraying

CANTO I.] ORION. S3

With mirrors bright to see, and voids beneath,

Its broken spell should find no faith in thee.'

Thus sang a gentle Oread, who had loved

A River-god with gold-reflecting streams.

But found him all too cold — while yet she stood
Scarce ankle-deep — and droopingly retired

To sing of fond hopes past. Orion's hand

A jewelled armlet held, whereon his eyes
Earnestly rested. By a lovely boy.

Smiling, 't was brought to him while he reclined

Desponding, o'er a rock. ' This gift, still warm.
My mistress sends thee, giant son of Ocean,

Once having seen thee in the hunting train

Of Artemis. Her name, if thou wouldst know.

Is Merop4 daughter of Chios' king,

The proud Oinopion, lord of a hundred ships.'

Orion to the palace of the king

Forthwith departed. Merop^ once seen.

His eyes resign their clear external power.

And see through feeling, utterly possessed
54 ORION. [book ii.

With her rare image ; and his deep desire,

Deeper by energies so long confused,

When half his earth-born nature was subdued.
Struggled and bounded onward to the goal.

Her beauty awed the common race of men.

Her's was a shape made for a serpent dance.

Which charmed to stillness and to burning dreams.

But she herself the illusive charm o'erruled

As doth an element, merging for a time.

Ne'er lost ; and none could steadily confront
Her sphynx-like bosom, and high watchful head.

Dark were her eyes, and beautiful as Death's,

With a mysterious meaning, such as lurks

In that pale Ecstasy, the Queen of Shades.

All deemed her passion was a mortal flame,

Volcanic, corporal, ending with its hour

Of sacrifice, dissolving in fine air ;

Save one bald sage, who s&id that human nerves.

And what they wrought, were wondrous as the mind,

And in the eye of Zeus none could decide

Which held the higher place. For, to the nerves

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CANTO I.J ORIOk. 5S

Perfect abstraction and pure bliss belonged,

As parent of all life, and might in death

Continuance through some subtler medium find,

Whence, life renewed, and heaven at length attained.

Nought of this sage's lore recked Merop6,

And, for Orion, he was sick of thought,
Save that which round his present object played
Delicious gambols and high phaatasies.

Together they, the groves and templed glades

That, like old Twilight's vague and gleamy abode.

In mist and maze clung round the palace towers.

Roved, mute with passion's inward eloquence.

They loitered near the founts that sprang elate

Into the dazzled air, or pouring rolled

A crystal torrent into oval shapes

Of blood-veined marble ; and oft gazed within
Profoundly tranquil and secluded pools.
Whose lovely depths of mirrored blackness clear

Oblivion's lucid-surfaced mystery

Their earnest faces and enraptured eyes

Visibly, and to each burning heart, revealed.

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'
And art thou mine to the last gushing drop

Of these high throbbing veins ?' each visage said.

Orion straightway sought Oinopion's court.

And his hfe's service to the gloomy king
He proffered for the hand of Merope.

Oinopion strode about his pillared hall.

And the dun chequers of its marble floor

Counted perplexed, while pondering his reply.

Orion's strength and giant friends he feared

Nor to accept the alliance, nor refuse.

Seemed wise. Thereto, Poseidon's empire rolled

Too near, and might surround his towers with waves ;

Wherefore the king a double face assumed.

'
Orion, I consent,' mildly he said :

'
Thy service I accept, and to thee give.

When thou shalt have performed it, Merop6.

Clear me our Chios of its savage beasts.

Dragon and hippogrif, wolves, serpents dire,

Within six days, and Meropd is thine.'

Through the high palace-gates Orion passed.

CANTO I.] ORION. 57

Speeding to seek strong aid for this hard task

Among his forest friends. Old memories

Slumbrously hung above the purple line

Of distance, to the east, while odorously

Glistened the tear-drops of a new-fallen shower ;

And sunset forced its beams through strangling

boughs,
Gilding green shadows, till it blazed athwart

The giant-caves, and touched with watery fires

The heavy foot-marks which had plashed the sward

On vacant paths, through foliaged vistas steep,

Where gloom was mellowing to a grand repose.

At intervals, as from beneath the ground.

Far in the depth of these primeval cells.

Low respirations came. There, in great shade.

The Giants sleep. Lost sons are they of Time.

There is no hour when rest is sacred held

By him who works and builds ; and eve and night.

Alike with day, his toil oft-times will claim.

!'
'
Awake, companions ! 'tis Orion calls

And straight the giants rose, and came to him.

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58 ORION. [book ii.

Save Akinetos, into whose low cave

They with a torch now entered, there to hold

The conference, for he was very wise,

And ne'er proposed, nor did a thing that failed.

Orion's tale is told ; Hormetes then

For Merop^ proposed fair lots to draw.

Whereat Orion glared, — but speech refrained

When Harpax fiercely on Hormetes turned
With loud reproach, since he had sworn to him
Far different purpose ; so Orion smiled.

And of Rhexergon and Biastor sought

Aid in his heavy task. They promised this

When each one, by an arm, Encolyon

Grasped, and reminded of the darkness. ' Night

Is the fit time,' Orion cried, '
to dig

The pitfalls, throw up mounds with bristling stakes

At top, as barriers, and the nets and toils

Fix and prepare, and choose our clubs and

spears.'

But still Encolyon urged a day's delay,

For dignity of movements thus combined,
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If not for need. To Akinetos now

All turned with reverence, waiting the result

Of silent wisdom and of calm profound

But from these small things he had long with-

drawn
His godlike mind, and was again abstract.

Orion took the torch, and led the way

Into the dark damp air. Each to his post

Assigning ; one, for the chief mountain pass,

Soon as the grey dawn touched the highest peaks

One, in the plains below ; two, for the woods ;

The while Biastor and himself would range

The island, driving to the centre all

That should escape their spears. 'Twas thus

resolved.

Meantime, Rhexergon and Biastor joined

Orion, who went forth to dig the pits.

Break down high tops of trees, and weave their

boughs
In barrier walls, and fix sharp stakes on mounds
And river banks. When they were gone, a yell,
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Mocking the wild beasts doomed to be destroyed,

Harpax sent forth. ' Mine be the task/ he said,

'
To ravage the King's pastures — slay his bulls

And into our own woods and meadows drive

His goats and stags.' ' Rather collect alive,'

IJormetes interposed, 'with strong-meshed nets,

All the mad beasts, and loose them suddenly

Within Oinopion's palace ! That were sport
Worthy our toil ; small joy for us to aid

Orion's freaks for love of Meropd,

Whom yet, methinks, he wisely hath preferred

To crystal-bosomed, wintry Artemis,

Pale huntress, exiled from our sunny woods.

With crescent trembling bloody in eclipse.

Had my will power '

' But all her nymphs
detained.

And, like our vines, of the ripe golden fruit

Deep rifled through their leaves,' Harpax rejoined :

'
Or placed,' Encolyon muttered to himself,

'
On pedestals, until they changed to stone,'

And something worse he said, not safe to tell ; —

'
All votive statues to the Goddess famed
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CANTO I.] ORION. 6

For cruel purity and marble heart !

—
Hofmetes shouted, staring up on high.

All this heard Artemis, who o'er the caves

Rolled her faint orb before the coming dawn,

In lonely sadness ; and with an inward cry

Of jealous anguish and of vengeful ire.

Like an electric spark that knows not space.

Shot from her throne into the eastern heaven.

END OF CANTO I.
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ORION.

CANTO THE SECOND.

The Sun-god's tresses o'er the whirling reins

That scarcely ruled the swift-ascending steeds,

Fell, like a golden torrent, while his head,

Answering his goddess sister's brief request,

Smiling, he bowed, — and the clouds closed behind

His blazing wheels. Four of those giants' sires

Were gods, who with their earth-born sons might hold

Communion ; wherefore Artemis, alone.

Deemed not her power sufficed for safe revenge

Of which now sure, her course to earth she bent.

The night-work done, his friends Orion left

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Their further preparations to complete,

And to the caves returned, hopeful that now
The others would assist. There sat the three.

Listening the slow speech of Encolyon,

Who with change-hating eyes, fixed on the earth,

Discoursed, and to Orion's anxious looks

Thus made reply: — ' We have resolved to give

Our utmost aid — or aid that may suffice,

In furtherance of thy task, which many days

Rightly requires.' ' Six days,' Orion said,

And turned to go ; when Harpax interposed :

'
Be it then six, but our conditions hear.

Take Merope, thy prize ; the rest be ours.

Oinopion's kingdom we shall duly share.

And make Encolyon king, as fitted best

For cares of state and governance of men.'

'
Not altogether King,' Encolyon said
With meekness — ' but, in sooth, I would return
Among mankind, and dictate to small towns.'

Orion answered, This were breach of

' faith

In me; the King and all his subjects, still

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64 ORION. [book ii.

Must as I found them rest, until he die

Then, as ye will, among ye take the crown,

Which, having Merop6, I ne'er shall claim.

Away now to our work !'

Hormetes rose.

'
This we accept,' he said, '
for brief is life

Of man — and insecure. But further thought

Should prompt us rather choose Encolyon
As guiding minister and staid high priest.

While Akinetos rule as Chios' king.'

At mention of the name so reverenced,

Silently all assented. ' See, the light

!
Of day spreads warmly down the valley slopes

Orion cried. Now Phoibos through the cave

Sent a broad ray ! Harpax arose, and then,

Pondering on rules for safest monarchy,
Encolyon heavily. The solar beam
Filled the great cave with radiance equable,

And not a cranny held one speck of shade.

A moony halo round Orion came.

As of some pure protecting influence.

While with intense light glared the waUs and roof,

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The heat increasing. The three giants, stood

With glazing eyes, fixed. Terribly the light

Beat on the dazzled stone, and the cave hummed

With reddening heat, till the red hair and beard

Of Harpax showed no difference from the rest,

Which once were iron-black. The sullen walls

Then smouldered down to steady oven-heat,.

Like that with care attained when bread h?is ceased

Its steaming, and displays an angry tan.

The appalled faces of the giants showed

Full consciousness of their immediate doom !

And soon the cave a potter's furnace glowed.

Or kiln for largest bricks, and thus remained
The while Orion, in his halo clasped

By' some invisible power, beheld the clay.

Of these his early friends, change. Life was gone

Now sank the heat — the cave-walls lost their

glare

The red lights faded, and the halo pale

Around him, into chilly air expanded.

There stood the three great images, in hue

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66 ORION. [book ii.

Of chalky white and red, like those strange shapes

In Egypt's regal tombs; — but presently

Each visage and each form with cracks and flaws

Was seamed, and the lost countenance brake up.

As, with brief toppling, forward prone they fell,

And, in dismay, uttering a sudden cry,

Orion headlong from the cavern fled!

Fierce Harpax, and wind-steered Hormetes, reft

Of life thus early, may by few be wept

But long laments by the chief rulers made.

Of Chios, for the sage Encolyon,

Far echoed, and still echo through the world

Which feels, e'en now, for his great principle

A secret reverence. ' Chainer of the wheel

Hater of all new things ! — to whom the acts

Of men seemed erring ever in each hope
And effort to advance, save in a round,

Taught by the high example of the spheres !

Oh champion grave, who with a boundary stone

Stood'st in improvement's door -way like a god.

Ready by wholesome chastisement to grant

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j ORION. 67

Crushing protection ; regulator old

Of science, scorning genius and its dreams,

And all the first ideas and germs of things,

Time and his broods of children shall prolong

Thy fame, thy maxims, and thy practice staid.

Fraught with experience turning on itself.'

O'er the far rocks, midst gorge and glen profound ;

Now from close thickets, now from grassy plains ;

The sounds of raging contest, flight and death.

Told where Rhexergon and Biastor wrought

Their well-directed work. Them, quickly joined
Their head in this destruction, and ere night.

Huge forms, ferocious, mighty in the dawn.

When hoar rime glistened on each hairy shape.

Nought fearing, swift, brimfull of raging life,

Lay stiffening in black pools of jellied gore.

Nor with the day ceased their tremendous task.

But all night long Orion led the way

Through moonless passes to most secret lairs,

Where in their deep abodes fierce monsters crouched

Dragons, and sea-beasts, and compounded forms,

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68 OJi'/OM [book II.

And in the pitchy blackness madly huddlirig,

Midst deafenifi'g yells and hisses they were slaift.

Next day the unabated toil displayed

Like prowess and result ; but with the eve

Fatigue o'ercame the giants, and they slept.

Dense were the rolling clouds, starless the glooms,

But o'er a narrow rift, once drawn apart.

Showing a field remote of violet hue.

The high Moon floated, and her do\ynward gleam
Shone on the upturned giant faces. Rigid
Each upper feature, loose the nether jaw
Their arms cast wide with open palms ; their chests

Heaving like some large engine. Near them lay

Their bloody clubs with dust and hair begrimed.

Their spears and girdles, and the long-noosed thongs.

Artemis vanished ; all again was dark.

With day's first streak Orion rose, and loudly *

His prone companions called. But still they slept.

Again he shouted ;
yet no limb they stirred,

Though scarcely seven strides distant. He approached.

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And found the spofj so sweet with clpvier-jlower

When they had cast them down, was aow arrayed

With many-headed poppies, like a ^crowd

Of dusky Ethiops ,in a piagic cirque,

Which had sprung up beneath tJjestn in the night,

And all entranced the air. .Orion paced

Around their Useless bodies 'thoughtfully.

'
Three giants slain outright by Plioibos' beams,-

Now hath a dead sleep fallen on my friends.

'T was wise in Akinetos not to move.'

An earthquake would not wake them. Artemis

Rejoices, and the hopes of Merope,
To whom the inews .a breathless shepherd bore.

Throbbed fearfully suspended o'er the brink

Of this e,yent. Not long Orion .paused

'
Though all may fail, the utmost shall be tried :

Secure is he who on himself relies.'

This, hastening to his work, was all he said.

Four days remain. Fresh trees he felled, and

wove
More barriers and fences ; inaccessible
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70 ORION. [book II.

To fiercest charge of droves, and to o'erleap

Impossible. These walls he so arranged,

That to a common centre each should force

The flight of those pursued ; and from that centre

Diverged three outlets. One, the wide expanse,
Which from the rocks and inland forests led

One, was the clear-skied windy gap above

A precipice ; the third, a long ravine.

Which, through steep slopes, down to the sea-shore

ran

Winding, and then direct into the sea.

Two days remain. Orion, in each hand '•

Waving a torch, his course at night began,

Through wildest haunts and lairs of savage beasts.

With long-drawn howl before him trooped the wolves

The panthers, terror-stricken — and the bears.

With wonder and gruff rage ; from desolate crags.

Leering hyaenas, griffin, hippogrif.

Skulked, or sprang madly, as the tossing brands

Flashed through the midnight hollows and cold nooks.

Sudden as fire from flint ; o'er crashing thickets,

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With crouched head and curled fangs, dashed the

wild boar,

Gnashing forth on with reckless impulses,

While the clear-purposed fox crept closely down
Into the underwood, to let the storm,

Whate'er its cause, pass over. Through dark fens,

Marshes, green rushy swamps, and margins reedy,

Orion held his way, — and rolling shapes

Of serpent and of dragon moved before him

With high-reared crests, swan-like yet terrible,

And often looking back with gem-like eyes.

All night Orion urged his rapid course

In the vexed rear of the swift-drpving din.

And when the dawn had peered, the monsters all

Were hemmed in barriers. These he now o'erheaped

With fuel through the day, and when again
Night darkened, and the sea a gulf-like voice

Sent forth, the barriers at all points he fired.

Midst prayers to Hephaistos and his Ocean-sire.

Soon as the flames had eaten out a gap

In the great barrier fronting the ravine
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That ran down to the sea, Orion grasped

Two blazing boughs ; one high in air he raised,

The other with its roaring foHage trailed

Behind him as he sped. Onward the droves

Of frantic creatures with one impulse rolled

Before this night-devouring thing of flames,

With multitudinous voice and downward sweep

Into the sea, which now first knew a tide.

And, ere they made one effort to regain

The shore, had caught them in its flowing arms,

And bore them past all hope. The living mass.

Dark heaving o'er the waves resistlessly.

At length, in distance, seemed a circle small.

Midst which, one creature in the centre rose,

Conspicuous in the long red quivering gleams

That from the dying brands streamed o'er the waves.

It was the oldest dragon of the fens,

Whose forky flag-wings and horn-crested head

O'er crags and marshes regal sway had held

And now he rose up, like an embodied curse

From all the doomed, fast sinking — some just

sunk
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Looked land-ward o'er the sea, and flapped his vans,

Until Poseidon drew them swirling down.

Along the courts and lofty terraces.

Within Oinopion's palace echoing.

The choral voices and triumphal dang
Of music, ordered by the royal maid,
Advanced to greet Orion. She with flushed neck

And arms ; large eyes of flashing jet and fire.

And raven tresses fallen from their bands,

The loud procession led. But soon ithey met

A phalanx armed with mandate from the Jcing,
And all the triumph ceased. Oinopion then
Gnawed on his lip, and gathered up his robe

In one large knot Forthwith the whispering guards

His daughter to the strongest tower convey

Then silently return. Orion comes :

'
The work is done, O King J and Merope,
My bride, I claim — my. second father thou,!'

This said, he bent his knee. With wandering eye,

Like one who seems to seek within the air

An object, while his thoughts would gather time

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For guile — and with averted face, the king

Answered, '
Thou claim'st too soon !' and inwardly
Oinopion said, '
Three of his giant friends
Are dead ; the others spell-bound sleep.' The voice

Of wronged Orion rose within the hall,

Demanding Merop6 ; but image-like,

Hard as if hewn out from a flinty cliff,

And stately, stood the king, as he replied,

'
She waits the voice of our mute oracles.'

In a deep forest, where the night-black spires

Of pines begin to swing, and breathe a dirge

Whose pauses are filled up with yearning tones
Of oaks, that few external throes display

Midst their robust unyielding boughs — the winds

Are flying now in gusts, and soon a storm
Bursts howling through them, like a Fury sent

In quest of one who hath outstripped his fate,

And been caught up to heaven. But no escape

Or premature release his course attends

Whose passions boil above mortality

Nor till those mortal struggles have transpired

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Can satisfaction or repose be found.

Vainly shall he, with self-deluding pride

Of weakness, masked with power, seek solitude

And high remoteness from his fellow-men,

In all their bitter littleness and strife ;

Their noble efforts, suffering, martyrdom.

He conquers not who flies, except he bear

Conquest within ; nor flies he who believes

The object of his passion he can grasp,

Save for design to consummate the end.

'
O raging forest, do I seek once more

Your solitude for my secure abode .''

Orion cried, with wild arms cast abroad.

Fronting a tree whose branches lashed the air.

While its leaves showered around ;

— 'And shall I not

In your direct communion with the earth

And heavens, find sympathy with this branched frame

I bear, thus shaken ;
yet unlike your storm.

Which may be wholesome, coming from without,

And from the operative round of things.

While mine is centred in myself, and rends
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But does not remedy. Let me then shun

The baleful haunts of men — worse than the beasts
Whom I have exiled, and to shadows changed
Savage as beasts, with less of open force ;

As wily, with less .skill and promptitude ;

As little reasonings save for selfish .ends

Less faithful, true, and honest, than the dog

But hypocritical, which beasts are not,

Save in the fables which men make for them !

Into myself will I henceforth retire,

And find the world I dreamed of when a child.

Nor this alone ; but worlds of higher mould

And loftier attributes shall roll before

My constant coiitemplation, in the cave

Of Akinetos, whom at times I'll seek,

And emulate Jiis wisdom ; ever right

In never moving, more than absolute need.

Thus shall I find my solace in disdain

Of earth's inhabitants, whom through city and field

I've found sheer clay, save in the visions bright

Of Goddess, and of Nymph,-— O Merop^ !

And where art thou, while idly thus I rave ?

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Runs there no iiope^— no fever throtigh tliy veirts.

Like that which leaps and courses round my heart ?

Shall I resign thee, passion-perfect maid,

Who in mortality's most finished work

Rank'st highest —and loy'st me, even as' I love ?

Rather possess thee with a tenfold stress

Of love ungovernable, being denied f

'Gainst fraud what should I cast down in reply ? -

What but a sword, since force must do me right.

And strength was given unto me with my birth.

In mine own hand, and by ascendancy

Over my giant brethren. Two remain.

Whom prayers to dark Hephaistos and my sire

Poseidon, shall awaken into life

And we will tear up gates, and scatter towers.

Until I bear off Merope. Sing on !

Sing on, great tempest ! in the darkness sing !

Thy madness is a music that brings calm

Into my central soul ; and from its waves

That now with joy begin to heave and gush,

The burning Image of all life's desire.

Like an absorbing fire-breath'd phantom-god,

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Rises and floats !

— here touching on the foam,
There hovering over it ; ascending swift
Starward, then swooping down the hemisphere

Upon the lengthening javelins of the blast

Why paused I in the palace-groves to dream

Of bliss, with all its substance in my reach ?

Why not at once, with thee enfolded, whirl

Deep down the abyss of ecstasy, to melt

All brain and being where no reason is,

Or else the source of reason ? But the roar

Of Time's great wings, which ne'er had driven me
By dread events, nor broken-down old age.

Back on myself, the close experience

Of false mankind, with whispers cold and dry

As snake-songs midst stone hollows, thus has

taught me,

The giant hunter, laughed at by the world,

Not to forget the substance in the dream

Which breeds it. Both must melt and merge in one.

Now shall I overcome thee, body and soul.

And like a new-made element brood o'er thee
With all devouring murmurs ! Come, my love
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Come, life's blood-tempest !

— come, thou blinding
storm,

And clasp the rigid pine — this mortal frame

Wrap with thy whirlwinds, rend and wrestle down,

And let my being solve its destiny,

Defying, seeking, thine extremest power,

Famished and thirsty for the absorbing doom

Of that immortal death which leads to life.

And gives a glimpse of Heaven's parental scheme.'

END OF CANTO II.

 ORION.

CANTO THE THIRD.

In parching summer, when the mulberry-leaves

Drooped broad and gleaming, and the myrtles curled,

While the pomegranate's rind grew thin and hard.

The vegetation of the isle looked pale.
Flaccid, and fading in despondency
For rain, and the young corn in every field.

With dry and rustling murmur as it waved.

Glistened impatiently, till autumn's tomb

Received the husky voice, and spring's dead hopes.

The vine-hills, and wild turpentines that grew

Along the road beneath, all basked content,
As did the lentisk-trees ; but many a pant
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And sultry sigh came from the fields and meads,

The city's gardens, where no fountains played,

And hot stone temples in the sacred groves.

Such lack of moisture oft had been endured,

And even the latest winter, whose thick breath

Solemnly wafted o'er the .^gean sea.

Had not resigned a single peak of snow

To melt and flow down for the brooks of spring.

But since the breath of spring had stirred the

woods.
Through which the joyous tidings busily ran,

And oval buds of delicate pink and green

Broke, infant-like, through bark of sapling boughs,

The vapours from the ocean had ascended.

Fume after fume, wreath upon wreath, and floor

On floor, till a grey curtain upward spread

From sea to sky, and both as one appeared.

Now came the snorting and intolerant steeds

Of the Sun's chariot tow'rds the summer signs

At first obscurely, then with dazzling beams

And cleared the heavens, but held the vapours there,

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In cloudy architecture of all hues.

The stately fabrics and the Eastern pomps,

Tents, tombs, processions veiled, and temples vast.

Remained not long in their august repose.

But sank to ruins, and re-formed in likeness

Of monstrous beasts in lands and seas unknown.

These gradually dilating, limb from limb,

And head from bulk, were drawn apart, and floated

Hither and thither, till in ridges strewn.

Like to a rich and newly-furrowed field

Then breaking into purple isles and spots,

Faded to faintness, and dissolved in air.

One midnight dark a spirit electric came.

And shot an invisible arrow through the sky,

Which instantly the wide-spread moisture called

To congregate in heavy drops, that fell

As suddenly. Like armies, host on host.

Pouring upon the mountains, vales, and plains,

The showers clashed down. Each runnel and thin

stream

A branching brook became, or flowing river

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Each once small river rolled a goodly flood

With laughing falls ; and many a Naiad bright.

And rush-crowned River-god, was newly born,

While all the land- veins with fresh spirit. ran

In this quick season of Orion's life.

The snows on every height had drunk the showers.

Till, heavy with the moisture, each steep ridge

Lost its pure whiteness and transparent frost

Sank down as humbly as a maid once proud,

Who droops, and kneels, and weeps ; and from
beneath
Its stagnant foam melted quick-running rills,

Down slopes, with sunny music and loud hum,

Precipitous, ere through dark craggy rifts

Sparkling it dashed, and poured towards the plain.

Unusual growth of corn was in the land.

Whose fields with tender-flowing greenness Smiled,

As winds with shades ran dances over them

And even the vineyards, oliveyards, and groves

Of citron, were in their abundant fruits

Abundantly increased : all works increased.

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Dark as an eagle on a cloudy rock,

Oinopion sat upon his ancient throne.

'
Fixed was his face, while, through a distant gate,

Upon the ruins of a tower he gazed.

That like a Titan's shattered skeleton

Still in its place stuck fast. But she was gone.

His daughter Merop6 was borne away;
And willingly he knew and whither
; fled.

He knew. But how recover, or revenge

The loss ."
— new dangers, outrage, how avert .'

. Infuriate were his people at the deed.

For by the giants many had been slain.

Ere they had won their prize. 'Gainst Merop4

Some spake aloud ; against Orion, all,

Save the bald sage, who said 'T was '

natural.'

'
Natural !'
they cried :
'
O wretch !' The sage was
stoned.

Within his cave, in his accustomed place,

With passive dignity that ever holds

Unwise activity in check and awe

And active wisdom where the will 's not strong

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Sat Akinetos, listening to the tale

Thus by Rhexergon told ; Biastor leaning

Against a rock, with folded arms, the while.

'
We from our trance with aching brows awoke

Starting, and on our elbows raised, with chins

Set in our hands, collected our mazed minds.

We both had dreamed one dream. In Chios' walls

A feast we held in honour of the king,

Encolyon, newly chosen — as we thought
By the chief rulers, while Orion stood

Chained to the throne. But Merop6, 'twas said.

Should still be his, if loyal, hand and soul.

Yet ere Orion answered, rushing came

A small dark shape — some airy messenger
Darting on all sides, diving, nestling, leaping.

Swift as a mullet coursing the sea-hare,

And strong, as when within the shore-hauled net

It searches, like a keen hound, to and fro.

And no gap finding, bounds o'er the high-drawn line

One leaps — all follow like a flock of sheep

Over a wattle. So, this headlong shape.

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Which, in our dream, now multiplied to shoals,

And thus confused the feasters. But what 't was

None saw, nor knew but
; all the feast they marred,

While, in the place of meats and frujts, we found

Dust— dry-baked dustj the dust of the gone king,
Encolyon — as a bird the screamed forth
in air

By Phoibos smitten. Now a sound we heard.

Like to some well-known voice in prayer ; and next

An iron clang that seemed to break great bonds
Beneath the earth, shook us to conscious life.

A briny current passing through our hearts

Stung all our faculties back to former power

And as we rose, across a distant field

We saw Orion coming with a sword.

Our dream thus ended in reality,

Without a boundary line. What followed seemed

Continuous, for Orion urged us on.

Fresh work had he in hand ; few words explained ;

And to Oinopion's city we repaired,

Entering at eve of a great festival,

I with a club, iron bound, of ponderous weight

Biastor with a shield, forged by Orion,

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Whose disk enormous would protect all three,

And, set with ray-like spikes around the rim,

Looked like a fallen star. Onward we drove
Behind this threatening orb, down-trampling all

Who fled not, or our impulse strove to oppose

Feasters and dancers, chieftainSj priests, and guards

I tell it as it happened — blow by blow—

Till near a high tower, doubtful of our course.

At bay, like bulls, within a circle clear

By terror made, we paused. The archers soon,

With bow-arm forward thrust, on all sides twanged.

Around, below, above. Behind the shield.

That on its spikes stood grimly, we retired,

And heard the rattling storm ; when from the tower

A light flashed down one side, and at the top

Stood Merope, who cried, " Orion, see

My prison I have fired, and in my haste

Fired first below. I cannot pass the flames !"

E'en while she spake a hydra-wreath of smoke

Ran coiling up the stony stair, and peered

Into each chamber with its widening head.
As if to seek its prey. Again she cried,
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" I will !"

leap down into thine arms !" " Forbear
Shouted Orion. " First let us try our strength

With skill." I on the groaning gate-posts smote,

Until their bolts and nails started like tusks

From battered jaws, and inward sank the gates,

Crushing armed men behind. O'er all we passed.

Orion, now in front, amidst a cloud

Of smoke, dust, slaughter, and confusing cries,

The blackened slabs of winding stair ascended

And, in the same fierce uproar and dismay

Of men, not fit to cope with sons of Gods,

Unscathed came down with Merop^. 'T was good.

He bore her to the cedar-grove afar,

Where in brief space a palace he had built.

While we, remaining midway, called a rout

Around us, and great revel held that night.'

Rhexergon ceased, while in the sunny air

His large eyes shone, and, pleased with what he told—

For well he spake with deep-voiced cadences —

Looked like a monarch who hath made a verse.

Now Akinetos spake. ' Your efforts done.

CANTO III.] ORION, 89

What good to ye is wrought ? To him, what good ?

Not long will Merope be his : if long.

What good, since both must tire ? Oinopion soon,

The king of ships and armies, may reclaim

This Merop^ by force : perchance her own

Inconstant will may save these ships and men.'

'
If we defend the prize,' Biastor said,
'
Substantial good unto ourselves were due ;

Wise are thy words ; wherefore large terms of spoil

We with Orion will in future make,

That shall secure our constant revelry.

As in Dodona, once, ere driven thence

By Zeus, for that Rhexergon burnt some oaks.

Thrust we the king from off his throne, or thrust

His throne from under him to some fresh place,
And with our daily fancies we'll sit crowned,

And feast, and order armies to march forth,

And ships to sail, and music, and more feast.'

'
Better pull down the city, and destroy
The fleet,' Rhexergon said. ' Then, all despoiled,

And made as slaves, leave we our woodland homes :

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There live, with Akinetos for our king

Aught we destroy Orion can rebuild.

If we should need ; or frame aught else we need :

!'
Rise, therefore, Akinetos ; thou art king
So saying, in his hand he placed a spear.

As though against a wall 't were set aslant,

Flatly the long spear fell upon the ground.

'
He will not be a king ; nor will he aid
Your purposes,' murmured the Great Unmoved.
'
Hormetes, Harpax, aided, and both died ;

Orion's work will shortly work his end ;

Encolyon, ever meddling to prevent,

Wasted his mind and care, and found his death.

Those who have wisdom aid not, nor prevent.

Nought good has followed aught that ye have done,

Nor will good follow aught that ye can do,

Or I can do, — or any one can do,
Except such good as of itself will come.
If so 't was ordered. Leave Zeus to his work,

The Supreme Mover of all things, and best,

Who, if we move not, must Himself sustain

CANTO III.] ORION. 91

His scheme : hence, never moved by hands unskilled,

But moved as best may be. Be warned ; sit still.'

Within the isle, far from the walks of men,

Where jocund chase was never heard, nor hoof

Of Satyr broke the moss, nor any bird

Sang, save at times the nightingale — but only

In his prolonged and swelling tones, nor e'er

With wild joy and hoarse laughing melody.

Closing the ecstasy, as is his wont,-^
A forest, separate and far withdrawn

From all the rest, there grew. Old as the earth,

Of cedar was it, lofty in its glooms

When the sun hung o'erhead, and, in its darkness.

Like Night when giving birth to Time's first pulse.

Silence had ever dwelt there ; but of late

Came faint sounds, with a cadence droning low.

From the far depths, as of a cataract

Whose echoes midst incumbent foliage died.

From one high mountain gushed a flowing stream.

Which through the forest passed, and found a fall

Within, none knew where, then rolled tow'rds the sea.

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There, underneath the boughs, mark where the

gleam
Of sunrise through the roofing's chasm is thrown

Upon a grassy plot below, whereon

The shadow of a stag stoops to the stream

Swift rolling tow'rds the cataract, and drinks deeply.

Throughout the day unceasingly it drinks,

While ever and anon the nightingale.

Not waiting for the evening, swells his hymn
His one sustained and heaven-aspiring tone
And when the sun hath vanished utterly,

Arm over arm the cedars spread their shade.

With arching wrist and long extended hands.

And graveward fingers lengthening in the moon,
Above that shadowy stag whose antlers still

Hang o'er the stream. Now came a rich-toned voice

Out of the forest depths, and sang this lay.

With deep speech intervalled and tender pause.

'
If we have lost the world what gain is ours !

Hast thou not built a palace of more grace

Than marble towers .' These trunks are pillars rare,

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Whose roof embowers with far more grandeur. Say

Hast thou not found a bliss with Merop6,

As- full of rapture as existence new ?

'Tis thus with me. I know that thou art blest.

Our inmost powers, fresh winged, shall soar and dream

In realms of Elysian gleam, whose air — light

flowers.

Will ever be, though vague, most fair — most sweet

Better than memory. Look yonder, love !

What solemn image through the trunks is straying .-•

And now he doth not move, yet never turns

On us his visage of rapt vacancy

It is Oblivion. In his hand — though nought

Knows he of this — a dusky purple flower
Droops over its tall stem. Again, ah see

He wanders into mist, and now is lost.

Within his brain what lovely realms of death

Are pictured, and what knowledge through the doors
Of his forgetfulness of all the earth

A path may gain t Then turn thee, love, to me :

Was I not worth thy winning, and thy toil,

O earth-born son of Ocean .' Melt to rain.'

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No foot may enter midst these cedar glooms :

Passion is there —a spell is on the place

It hath its own protecting atmosphere,

Needing no walls nor bars. But Chios' king

Hath framed his purpose ; the sworn instruments

Chosen ; and from the palace now depart

In brazen chariots, richly armed, ten chiefs.

'
Watch well your moment !'
— lastly spake the King;
'
Slay not outright — but make his future life

A blot — a blank !'

They bent their plumed helms,
And through the gates in thunder whirled away.

Beyond the cedar forest lay the cliffs

That overhung the beach, but midway swept

Fair swelling lands, some green with brightest grass,

Some golden in the sun. Mute was the scene.

And moveless. Not a breeze came o'er the edge

Of the high-heaving fields and fallow lands ;

Only the zephyrs at long intervals

Drew a deep sigh, as of some blissful thought.

Then swooned to silence. Not a bird was seen

Nor heard : all marble gleamed the steadfast sky.
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Hither Orion slowly walked a4one,

And passing round between two swelling slopes

Of green and golden light, beheld afar

The broad grey horizontal wall o' the dead-calm sea.

O'ersteeped in bliss ;
prone on its ebbing tide
With hope's completeness vaguely sorrowful.

And sense of life-bounds too enlarged ; his thoughts

Sank faintly through each other, fused and lost,

Till his o'ersatisfied existence drooped ;

Like fruit-boughs heavily laden above a stream,

In which they gaze so closely on themselves.

That, touching, they grow drowsy, and submerge,

Losing all vision. Sense of thankful prayers

Came over him, while downward to the shore

Slowly his steps he bent, seeking to hold

Communion with his sire. The eternal Sea
Before him passively at full length lay.

As in a dream of the uranian Heavens.

With hands stretched forward he began his prayer
'
Receive, Poseidon ! '
but no further words

Found utterance. And again he prayed, and said,

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'
Receive, O Sire !'
yet still the emotion rose

Too full for words, and with no meaning clear.

He turned, and sinking on a sandy mound,

With dim look o'er the sea, deeply he slept.

What altars burn afar — what smoke arises

Beyond the swelling lands above the cliffs .'

Or is it but a rolling cloud of dust

That onward moves, driven by the wind .-'

And now
A rumbling sound is gathering in the breeze,

And nearer swells — now dies away — like wheels

That pass from stony ground to grassy plains.

Again ! — it rings and jars — and passing swift

Along the cliffs, till lost in a ravine,

Five brazen chariots fling the sunset rays

Angrily back upon the startled air!

In one, the last, struggles a lovely form.

Half pinioned by a chieftain's broidered scarf,

Her wild black tresses coiling round an arm

Which still she raises, striving to make a sign.

All disappeared. No voice, no sound, was heard.

The moon arose, and still Orion slept,
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The profound sleep of life's satiety,

In him whose senses else had quick regained

The sure protection of his healthy powers.

Forth from a dark chasm issue figures armed.

Close conference they hold, like ravens met

For ominous talk of death. No more : their shields,

Plumed helms, and swords, two chieftains lay aside,

Then stoop, and softly creep tow'rds him who

sleeps

While o'er their heads the long protecting spears

Are held by seven, who noiselessly and slow

Follow their stealthy progress. Step by step

The deadly crescent moves behind the twain.

Who, flat as reptiles, and with face thrust out.

Breathless, all senses sharpen. Now! — 'tis done!.

The poison falls upon the dreamer's lids.

Away, aghast at their own evil deed.

As though some dark curse on themselves had fallen.

Flashed the mailed moon-lit miscreants into shade.

Like fish at sudden dropping of a stone
H
98 ORION. [book ii.

The Moon now hid her face. The sea-shore lay

In hollowness beneath the rising stars,

And blind Orion, starting at once erect

Amid his darkness, with extended arms,

And open mouth that uttered not a word,
Stood statue-like, and heard the Ocean moan.

END OF BOOK II.

ORION.

BOOK III.
 BOOK III.

CANTO THE FIRST.

There is an age of action in the world;

An age of thought; lastly, an age of both,

When thought guides action and men know them-
selves.

What they would have, and how to compass it.

Yet are not these great periods so distinct

Each from the other, — or from all the rest

Of intermediate degrees and powers.

Cut off, — but that strong links of nature run

Throughout, and prove one central heart, wherein

Time beats twin-pulses with Humanity.

In every age an emblem and a type,

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Premature, single, ending with itself.

Of loftier being in an after-time.

May germinate, develope, radiate.

And, like a star go out, and leave no mark

Save a high memory. One such is our theme.

The wisdom of mankind creeps slowly on,

Subject to every doubt that can retard,

Or fling it back upon an earlier time ;

So timid are man's footsteps in the dark,

But blindest those who have no inward light.

One mind, perchance, in every age contains

The sum of all before, and much to come

Much that's far distant still ; but that full mind.

Companioned oft by others of like scope.

Belief, and tendency, and anxious will,

A circle small transpierces and illumes

Expanding, soon its subtle radiance

Falls blunted from the mass of flesh and bone.

The man who for his race might supersede
The work of ages, dies worn out — not used.
And in his track disciples onward strive,
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Some hairs'-breadths only from his starting-point

Yet lives he not in vain ; for if his soul

Hath entered others, though imperfectly,

The circle widens as the world spins round,
His soul works on while he sleeps 'neath the grass.

So, let the firm Philosopher renew

His wasted lamp — the lamp wastes not in vain.

Though he no mirrors for its rays may see.

Nor trace them through the darkness ; — let the Hand

Which feels primeval impulses, direct

A forthright plough, and make his furrow broad.

With heart untiring while one field remains ;

So, let the herald Poet shed his thoughts,

Like seeds that seem but lost upon the wind.

Work in the night, thou sage, while Mammon's
brain

Teems with low visions on his couch of down ;

Break, thou, the clods while high-throned Vanity,

Midst glaring lights and trumpets, holds its court ;

Sing, thou, thy song amidst the stoning crowd.

Then stand apart, obscure to man, with God.

The poet of the future knows his place,
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Though in the present shady be his seat,

And all his laurels deepening but the shade.

But what is yonder vague and uncouth shape,

That like a burthened giant bending moves,

With outspread arms groping its upward way

Along a misty hill ? In the blear shades,

Sad twilight, and thick dews darkening the paths

Whereon the slow dawn hath not yet advanced
A chilly foot, nor tinged the colourless air
The labouring figure fades as it ascends.

'T was he, the giant builder-up of things.

And of himself, now blind ; the worker great.

Who sees no more the substance near his hands,

Nor in them, nor the objects that his mind

Desires and would embody. All is dark.

It is Orion now bereft of sight.

Whose eyes aspired to luminous designs.

The siin and moon and stars are blotted out.

With their familiar glories, which become

Henceforth like chronicles remote. The earth
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Forbids him to cleave deep and trace her roots,

And veins, and quarries : Whose wide purposes

Are narrowed now into the safest path :

Whose lofty visions are ail packed in his brain,

As though the heavens no further could unfold

Their wonders, but turned inward on themselves

Like a bright flower that closes in the night

For the last time, and dreams of by-gone suns

Ne'er to be clasped again : Thou art reduced

To ask for sympathy and to need help

Stooping to pluck up pity from all soils

Bitterest of roots that round Pride's temple grow

Losing self-centred power, and in its place

Pressed with humiliation almost down

Whose soul had in one passion been absorbed,

Which, though illimitable in itself,

Profound and primal, yet had wrapped him rqund

Beyond advance, or further use of hand.

Purpose and service to the needy earth :

Whose passion, being less than his true scope,

Had lowered his life and quelled aspiring dreams.

But that it led to blindness and distress.
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Self-pride's abasement, more extensive truth,

A higher consciousness and efforts new.

In that dark hour when anguished he awoke,

Orion from the sea-shore made his way.

Feeling from cliff to cliff, from tree to tree.

Guided by knowledge of the varied tracks

Of land, — the rocks, the mounds of fern, the grass,

That 'neath his feet made known each spot he

passed

Hill, vale, and woodland ; till he reached the caves,

Once his rude happy dwelling. All was silent.

Rhexergon and Biastor were abroad.

Searching the jasper quarries for a lynx
That had escaped the wreck. Deeply he sighed.
The quiet freshness came upon his he^rt.

Not sweetly, but with aching sense of loss.

He felt his way, and listened at the cave

Of Akinetos, whom he heard within

Sing to himself And Akinetos rose,

Perceiving he was blind — and with slow care

Rolled forth a stone, and placed him by his side.
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Orion's tale soon closed ; its outward acts

And sad results were all that he could speak :

The rest writhed inwardly, and — like the leads

That sink the nets and all the struggles hide,

Till a strong hand drags forth the prize — his words

Kept down the torment, uttered all within

In hurrying anguish. Yet the clear, cold eye.

Grey, deep-set, steady, of the Great Unmoved,

Saw much of this beneath, and thus he spake.

'
My son, why wouldst thou ever work and build.

And so bestir thyself, when certain grief.

Mischief, or error, and not seldom death.

Follows on all that individual will

Can of itself attain ? I told thee this :

Nor for reproach repeat it, but to soothe

Thy mind with consciousness that not in thee

Was failure born. Its law preceded thine :

It governs every act, which needs must fail

I mean, give place — to make room for the next.

Each thinks he fails, because he thinks himself

A chain and centre, not a link that runs

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In large and complex circles, all unknown.

Sit still. Remain with me. No difference

Will in the world be found : 't will know no change,

Be sure. Say that an act hath been ordained ?

Some hand must do it : therefore do not move :

An instrument of action must be found,

And you escape both toil and consequence,

Which run their rounds with restless fools ; for ever

One act leads to another, and disturbs

Man's rest, and Reason — which foresees no end.'

'
I feel that thou art wise,' Orion said
'
The worker ever comes to thee cast down
Who with alacrity would frame, toil, build.

If he had wisdom in results, like thee .'

Would Strength life's soil upheave, though close it

clung.

And heavy, like a spade that digs in clay,

Therein to plant roots certain not to grow ?

O miserable man ! O fool of hope

All I have done has wrought me no fixt good.

But grief more bitter as the bliss was sweet,

CANTO I.] ORION. 109

Because so fleeting. Why did Artemis

Me from my rough and useful life withdraw ?
O'er wood and iron I had mastery,
And hunted shadows knowing they were shades.
Since then, my intellect she filled, and taught me
To hunt for lasting truth in the pale moon.
Such proved my love for her ; and such hath proved
My love for Merop4 to me now lost.

I will remain here : I will build no more.'

He paused : but Akinetos was asleep.

Wherefore Orion at his feet sank down,
Tired of himself, of grief, and all the world,

And also slept. Ere dawn he had a dream :

'T was hopeful, lovely, though of no clear sense.

He said, ' Methinks it must betoken good ;

Some help from Artemis, who may relent,

And think of me as one she sought to lift

To her own sphere of purity ; or, indeed,

Some God may deem me worthy of a fate

Better than that which locks up all design

In pausing night. Perchance the dream may bode

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That Merop^ shall be to me restored,

And I see nature through her, death-deep eyes,

And know the glorious mysteries of the grave.

Which, through extremes of blissful passion's life

Methought I saw. Oh, wherefore am I blind V

'
Abandon all such hopes of Merop^,'
Murmur'd the Great Unmoved : her ' truth was strong,

First to herself, and through herself to thee.

While that it lasted ; but that's done and gone.

How should she love a giant who is blind.

And sees no beauty but the secret heart

Panting in darkness .? That is not her world.'

Orion rose erect ' She is not false

Although she may fbi^et. I will go forth :

I may find aid, or cause some help to come

That shall restore my sight.' The sage replied,

' Thou'st seen enough already, and too much

For happiness- This passion prematurely

Endeth ; and therefore endeth as seems best,

Ere it wear out itself with languor and pain,

Or prostrate all thy mind to its small use

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Far worse, methinks,' ' Hast thou/ Orion cried,

'
No impulses-;-desires — no promptings kind ?'

The sage his memory tasked ; then slow replied :

'
Once I gave water to a thirsty plant
'T was a weak moment with us both. Next morn
It craved the like — but I, for "Nature" calling, >

Passed on. It drooped — then died, and rotted soon,

And living things, more highly organized.
With quick eyes and fine horns, reproached my hand
Which had delayed their birth. What wrong we do
By interfering with life's balanced plan

Do nothing — wait — and all that must come, comes !'

Silent awhile they stood. Orion sighed,

'
I know thy words are wise—' and went his way.

The blindness of their leader, and his woe.

Now had Rhexergon and Biastor learnt,

And thoughts of plunder cried out for revenge.

Which on Oinopion they proposed to wreak.

And make good pastime round his ruined throne.

' Revenige is useless,' Akinetos said :

•*
It undoes nothing, and prevents repentance
112 ORION. [book III.

Which might advantage others.' Both replied,

'
Thou speakest truth and wisdom ;' and at eve
Departed for the city, bent to choose

Some rebel chieftains for their aid, or slaves,

Or robbers who inhabited the rocks

North of the isle. A great revenge they vowed.

And where was Merop^ t The cruel deed

Her sire had compassed for Orion's fall,

Smote through her full breast, and at every beat

Entered her heart; nor settled there, but coursed
Through all her veins in anguish. Her despair

Was boundless, many days, until her strength.

Worn with much misery and the need of sleep.
Gave way, and slumber opened 'neath her .soul

Like an abyss. The deed, beyond recall.

Was done. She woke, and thought on this with grief

The cruel separation, and the loss

Of sight, had been completed. Nothing now

Of passion past remained but memory.

Which soon grew painful ; and her thoughts oft turned

For some relief, to listen to the songs

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That minstrels sang, sent by the youthful King

Of Syros, rich in pastures and in corn.

Beardless he was, dwarf-shaped, and delicate,

Freckled and moled, with saffron tresses fair

Yet were his minstrels touched with secret fires,

And beauty was the theme of all their lays.

Of her they sang — sole object of desire —

And with rare presents the pale king preferred

His suit for Merope. Her sire approved ;

Invited him ;
— he came — and Merope
;

With him departed in a high-beaked ship ;

And as it sped along, she closely pressed

The rich globes of her bosom on the side,

O'er which she bent with those black eyes, and gazed

Into the sea that fled beneath her face.

All this Orion heard : his blind eyes wept.

Now was each step a new experiment

Within him all was care ; without, all chance

Dark doubts sat in his brain ; danger prowled round.
He wandered lost and lone, and often prayed.
Standing beside the tree 'neath which he slept,

I
 114 ORION. [book III.

And would have offered pious sacrifice,

But that himself a victim blindly strayed.

His forehead's dark with wrinkles premature
Of vexing action ; his cheek scored all down
With debts of will that, never can be paid ;

Chagrin, pain, disappointment, and wronged heart.

At length, one day, some shepherd as he passed,

With voice that mingled with the bleat of lambs,

Cried, '
Seek the source of light !
— begin anew !'

On went he thinking, pausing, listening,

Till sounds smote on his ear, whereby he knew

That near the subterranean palace-gates
Which for Hephaistos he of iron had framed.

His feet approached. He entered there, and found

Brontes, the cyclops, whom he straight besought
His shoulders to ascend, and guide his course

Eastward, to meet the Morning as she rose.

'T was done. Their hazy forms erewhile we saw.

Swift down the misty eastern hill, whose top

Through broken vapours, swooning as they creep
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Along the edges into the wide heavens,

Shows Morn's first ruddy gleam, a shape uncouth,

And lumbering forward in half-falls and bounds,
Comes with tossed arms ! The Cyclops hoar with
rime.

His coarse hair flying, through the wet woods ran.

And in the front of Akinetos' cave.

Shouting the jovial thunder of his life,

Performed a hideous but full-hearted dance.

'
Dance, rocks and forests ! Akinetos, dance !

The Worker and the Builder hath his sight

Ho ! ho ! come forth — with either eye he sees !

Come forth, O Akinetos ! laugh, ye rocks

!'

A shadow o'er the face of him who sat

Within that cave, passed, —wrinkling with slight grains

The ledge-like brow, which, though of granite,

smoothed.
Not vexed, by ocean's tempests, now relaxed.

As it would say, 'I pity this return

Of means for seeking fresh distress;' — and then

The broad great features their fixed calm resumed.
ii6 ORION. [book III.

'T was thus Orion fared ; and this the scene.

Fast through the clouds retiring, the pale orb

Of Artemis a moment seemed to hang

Suspended in a halo, phantom-like,
Over a restless sea of jasper fire,

While bending forward tow'rds the eastern mount.

She gazed and hearkened. Soon the fervent voice

Of one who prayed beneath amid the mist.

Rose thrilling on the air ; and onward slow

Her car its voyage held, and waned more pale
And distant, as the prayer ascended heaven.

'
Eos ! blest Goddess of the Morning, hear
The blind Orion praying on thy hill.

And in thine odorous breath his spirit steep,

That he, the soft gold of thy gleaming hand

Passing across his heavy lids, sealed down
With weight of many nights, and night-like days.
May feel as keenly as a new-born child.

And, through it, learn as purely to behold

The face of nature. Oh, restore my sight

!'
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His prayer paused tremulous. O'er his brow he

felt

A balmy beam, that with its warmth conveyed

Divine suffusion and deep sense of peace

Throughout his being ; and amidst a pile,

Far in the distance, gleaming like the bloom

Of almond-trees seen through long floating halls

Of pale ethereal blue and virgin gold,

A Goddess, smiling like a new-blown flower,

Orion saw! And as he gazed he wept.

The tears ran mingling with the morning dews

Down his thick locks. At length once more he spoke.

'
Blest Eos ! mother of the hopeful star,

Which I, with sweet joy, take into my soul

Star-rays that first played o'er my blinded orbs.

Even as they glance above the lids of Sleep,

Who else had never known surprise, nor hope.

Nor useful action ; Golden Visitant,

So lovely and benign, whose eyes drive home
Night's foulest ghosts, and men as foul ; who bring'st

Not only my redemption, but who art

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The intermediate beauty that unites

The fierce Sun with the Earth, and moderates

His beams with dews and tenderness and smiles ;

O bird-awakener ! giver of fresh life,

New hopes, or to old hopes new wings, — receive

Within thy care, one who with many things

Is weary, and though nought in energy

Abated for good work, would seek thine aid

To some fresh course and service for his hand ;

!'
Of peace, meantime, and steadfast truth, secure

END OF CANTO I.
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CANTO THE SECOND.

Level with the summit of that eastern mount.

By slow approach, and like a promontory

Which seems to glide and meet a coming ship,

The pale-gold platform of the morning came

Towards the gliding mount. Against a sky
Of delicate purple, snow-bright courts and halls.

Touched with light silvery green, gleaming across,

Fronted by pillars vast, cloud-capitalled,

With shafts of changeful pearl, all reared upon

An isle of clear aerial gold, came floating

And in the centre, clad in fieecy white.

With lucid lilies in her golden hair,

Eos, sweet Goddess of the Morning, stood.

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From the bright peak of that surrounded mount,

One step sufficed to gain the tremulous floor

Whereon the Palace of the Morning shone,

Scarcely a bow-shot distant ; but that step,

Orion's humbled and still mortal feet

Dared not adventure. In the Goddess' face

Imploringly he gazed. 'Advance!' she said,

In tones more sweet than when some heavenly bird.

Hid in a rosy cloud, its morning hymn

Warbles unseen, wet with delicious dews.
And to earth's flowers, all looking up in prayer,

Tells of the coming bliss. ' Believe — advance — !

Or, as the spheres move onward with their song

That calls me to awaken other lands,

That moment will escape which ne'er returns.'

Forward Orion stepped : the platform bright

Shook like the reflex of a star in water

Moved by the breeze, throughout its whole expanse

And even the palace glistened fitfully,

As with electric shiver it sent forth

Odours of flowers divine and all fresh life.

Still stood he where he stepped, nor to return

CANTO II.] ORION. 12]

Attempted. To essay one pace' beyond

He. felt no power — yet onward he advanced

Safe to the Goddess, who, with hand outstretched,

Into the palace led him. Grace and strength.

With sense of happy change to finer earth,

Freshness of nature, and belief in good.

Came flowing o'er his soul, and he was blest.

'T is always morning somewhere in the world.

And Eos rises, circling constantly

The varied regions of mankind. No pause

Of renovation and of freshening rays

She knows, but evermore her love breathes forth

On field and forest, as on human hope,

Health, beauty, power, thought, action, and advance.

All this Orion witnessed, and rejoiced.

The turmoil he had known, the late distress

By losp of passion's object, and of sight.

Were now exchanged for these serene delights

Of contemplation, as the influence

That Eos wrought around for ever, dawned

Upon his vision and his inmost heart,
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In sweetness and success. All sympathy

With all fair things that in her circle lay,

She gave, and all received ; nor knew of strife

For from the Sun her cheek its bloom withdrew.
And, ere intolerant noon, the floating realm

Of Eos — queen of the awakening earth

Was brightening other lands, wherefrom black Night

Her faded chariot down the sky had driven

Behind the sea. Thus from the earth upraised.

And over its tumultuous breast sustained

In peace and tranquil glory — oh blest state !

Clear-browed Orion, full of thankfulness.

And pure devotion to the Goddess, dwelt

Within the glowing Palace of the Morn.

But these serene airs did not therefore bring

A death-sleep o'er the waves of memory.

Where all its clouds and colours, specks of sails,

Its car-borne Gods, shipwrecks and drowning men,

Passed full in view ;

yet with a mellowing sense

Ideal, and from pain sublimed. Thus came

Mirrors of nature to him, and full oft
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Downward on Chios turned his happy eyes,

With grateful thoughts that o'er life's sorrows woVe

The present texture of a sweet content,

Passing all wisdom, or its rarest flower.

He saw the woods, and blessed them for the sake

Of Artemis ; the city, and rich gloom

That o'er the cedar forest ever hung,

He also blessed for Meropd the isle, ;

And all that dwelt there, he with smiles beheld,

Nor, it may be, without prophetic thrill

When on Mount Epos turned his parting glance.

There, in an after age, close at its foot,

In the stone level was a basin broad

Scooped out, and central on a low shaft sat

A sage with silver hair, and taught his school,

Where the boy Homer on the stony rim

Sat with the rest around. Bright were his eyes.

With re-awakened love, and sight enlarged

For all things beautiful, and nobly true

To the great elements that rule the world,

Orion's mind, left to itself, reviewed

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Past knowledge, and of wisdom saw the fruit

Far nearer than before, the path less rough,

The true possession not austere and cold,

But natural in its strength and balance just

Of body and of soul ; each to respect.

And to the other minister, and both

Their one harmonious being to employ

For general happiness, and for their own.

Such was the lore which now his thoughts attained,

And he to Eos humbly would display.

Beseeching her response ! She only gazed
With a benignant smile upon the earth

That rolled beneath, and rendered back the gleam

With tender radiance over many a field.

The story of his life Orion told

His youth — his labours — lastly of his loves ;

Nor what for Artemis his opening soul

Had felt — what deep desire for Merop6

Sought to conceal. How much his intellect.

And entire nature, owed to the pale Queen

Of night's illumined vault, with grateful sighs
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Of reverential memory he declared;

To Eos turning with a pleading look,

Lest she might not approve. She took his hand.

And placed it on her side beneath her heart,

Which beat a sphery music audibly.

He, listening, still enraptured, countless echoes

Rang sweetly faint from distant groves beneath

Upon the earth. Within his hurrying heart

The trembling echoes now Orion felt.

And silent stood, as one who apprehends

Some new and blissful hope that round him soars.

Which still eludes his vision and his mind.

Not in like doubt was Artemis, whose car

Blank as it passed away before the morn,

Herself invisible — collapsed and yearned

Beneath the Goddess' spurning foot. At once
The lasting love of Eos she foresaw.

When at the tale of other loves he told

Sincerely, fully, with kind memories rife,

Orion's hand she pressed. His earnest eyes

All filled with new-born light, she also read,
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As in a mirror where the future's writ

And, reading, closed her own as she retired.

Meantime Rhexergon through the Chian streets

Triumphant, with Biastor and a host

Of rebel chieftains and their armed bands,
And drunken slaves and robbers, drove the King
From his lost throne. Beyond the suburb fields

Oinopion fled, and secret refuge found

Among the tombs, beneath a chain of hills,

Where dense cold gloom his robe and crown

became,
While over head along the hill-sides ran

The sunny vines. Tumult now choaked the city

With adverse crowds, and deafened it with cries

Of slayers, and of those who fled or fell.

The giants led the slaughter, oft commencing

Pillage, then turning yet again to slay,

Having no plan. They paused but to blaspheme

The Gods, like giants doomed to die. Rich spoil

Was found, seized, left — and trampled into mire
By feet that onward sprang for other spoil.
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Or to tear down, wrench, overthrow, destroy

Till thus Rhexergon rendered up his life :

—
All the chief rulers, priests, and sages old,

And heroes most renowned, Rhexergon vowed

Within the temple of Zeus to congregate

Wall up each means of egress, and from gaps
Made in the roof, pour down a rocky hail
From broken fanes, cliff, quarry and sea beach.
Upon their heads ; nor cease the crashing shower

Until the temple was filled up with stones.

To make the gaps, he with his club advanced.

Where central, 'neath the roof, a pillar rose.

Which was its main support. Blow upon blow

He smote ; the base gave way ; the pillar fell

And with it fell the roof, and buried him.

With equal skill Biastor wrought his fate.

On a long terrace, which precipitously

Looked down on suburb gardens deep below,
Near to the edge upon a pediment stood
A great gilt statue to Encolyon,
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By the high rulers reverently set up ;

And this inscription bearing on its base ;-t-

'
To the wheel-chainer ! Reiner-in of steeds !

August preserver of revered decay;

Votive — erected by a people's love.
'

Biastor, covered with a brazen shield,

Whirling his sword, and seeing not his way,

A panic-stricken crowd before him drove
On tow'rds the parapet. Thence to escape,

Some desperately rush back — are cloven down

The rest throng round the statue. It was carved
Of wood, and at its flat square base the sun

Had often turned a scornful glance, and made

Dry flaws, wherein had crept and nestled, rot.

They cling around its knees — the giant Force

!

Comes like a mighty wind ;

— and, as a mast
In shipwreck, black with rigging flanking loose.

And black with wild-haired creatures clinging round,

With crash and horrid slant its blasted tree

Surrenders sidelong, — so the statue fell.

With it the crowd were carried ; after it

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Biastor, knowing not the depths beyond,

Or his strong impulse having no power to check.

Followed head foremost. Down the hollow banks

He, floundering o'e"r the statue's tangled coil.

Into an orchard midst the vale below.

Deep in the mould lay prone ; and over him

The fallen statue lay athwart. 'T was thus,

The Builder absent, and at that time blind,

Force, and the Breaker-down their course fulfilled.

'What have I done on earth V Orion said.

While pensive on the platform of the morn

He stood. ' My youth's companions are destroyed,

And Akinetos evermore seems right.

Predicting failure to our human acts:

Or good, or ill, alike untoward prove.

I have not well directed mine own strength,

Nor theirs.' As thus he mused, a skylark sang

Within the gleaming Palace, and a voice

Followed melodious as it spake, t^iesfe words.

'
Well hast thou striven, and due reward shalt find

K
13° ORION. [book hi.

For though reward held dalliance with thy hopes

Of former days, and for thyself thou wrought'st,

The suffering and the lesson have sufficed

To fit thee for more noble aims. Sigh not

That those companions of thine unformed youth

Their rude career have closed : evil was all

They could have done without thee. Thou hast won

The love of Eos : doubt not of her truth,

And to thyself be constant, as to her.'

He turned, and at his side the Goddess smiled.

With tenderness of grace, such as the soul

Can through the heart convey, where both accord

One object to exalt. Orion knelt.

And looked up in her face, then rose and clasped

Her yielding loveliness. -

As they retired.

An eye glanced fire-like through the clear blue air.

And saw the embrace! — and marked the glowing

beams
On Eos' bosom, rosy yet all gold.

Like ripened peaches in the morning light.

That eye grew deadly — flashed — and it was gone,

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As onward in its course the Palace moved.

'T was Artemis ! — beware her fatal dart.

O'er meadows green or solitary lawn,

When birds appear earth's sole inhabitants,

The long clear shadows of the morning differ

From those of eve, which are more soft and vague,

Touched with old day-dreams and a mellowed grief.

The lights of morning, even as her shades.

Are architectural, and pre-eminent

In quiet freshness, midst the pause that holds

Prelusive energies. All life awakes.

Morn comes at first with white uncertain light

Then takes a faint red, like an opening bud

Seen through grey mist : the mist clears off; the

sky
Unfolds ;
grows ruddy ; takes a crimson flush

Puts forth bright sprigs of gold, which soon expanding

In saffron, thence pure golden shines the morn

Uplifts its clear bright fabric of white clouds.

All tinted, like a shell of polished pearl.

With varied glancings, violet gleam and blush

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Embraces Nature ; and then passes on,

Leaving the Sun to perfect his great work.

So came thy love upon Orion's heart,

O life-awakening Queen of early light.

And the devotion he, at first, had deemed

All spiritual, now quickened, glowed, attained

Entire vitality, and that highest state

Which every noblest faculty employs

With self-enjoyment and beneficence.

True happiness no idle course endures,

But by activity renews its strength.

Which else would fail, and happiness revolve

Within itself, still dwindling to the point

Where pain first stings. Far otherwise it fared

With thee, Orion. Watchful tow'rds«the world

His eye oft turned. The pure realm where he dwelt
Absorbed' not all his sympathies in itself.

Which, yet sprang forth, and sighed o!er ills below

Like one uplifted in abstraction's mood.
Who sits alone, and gazes in the fire.
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Watching red ruins as they fall and" change

To glorious fabrics, — which forthwith dissolve,

Or by some hideous conflict sink to nought.

While from a black mass issues tawny smoke,

Followed by a trumpet flame. War, and the waste
So far as man's one life and purpose feel

Of human labour — both its hand and heart

Came crowding on his mind. Nor less his eye

Earth's loveliness perceived ; nor less his thoughts

Of Eos, who in all his fresh designs.

Feelings, and wishes, shared, and urged him on

With constant impulse, hidden in sweet smiles.

And perfect love that thinks not of itself;

Conscious, contented, sphered beyond fresh hopes.

Earth was their child and constant morn their home.

;

Three things Orion contemplated oft

The first, his gratitude to Artemis

Inspired ; its general service and import

To human happiness, a duty made.

Her temple in Delos darkened to the east

With towering trees, amidst whose hollowed roots
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Dwelt poisonous Harpies. These to dislodge, destroy;

And hew the trees down, that the morning light,

Followed by radiant warmth, might penetrate

Its depths, even to the temple's central shine,

He purposed. Thus would Eos give her love

To Artemis, and all be reconciled.

His second purpose this : beneath the earth,

So might the Father of the Gods give aid.

To build a dungeon for the God of War,

Wherein, confined in a tumultuous sleep.

The visions of his madness should present

The roar of battles and its sanguine joys,

Its devastations, glories, and vain graves.

Here might he gloat on death, while o'er his head
The sea-wide corn-fields smiled in golden waves.

The last would need Poseidon's trident hand,

Which, fervent prayers and filial offerings

Would fail not to obtain ; whereby a blow,

Such as had lifted out of the frothed sea

Delos, — Kalliste, with its fathomless bay,

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Mountains and coral rocks, — repeated oft.

Might many mountains cause at once to rise,.

Higher and higher, till their summits kissed

The clouds. Then Eos, casting forth her robe

From peak to peak, and her immortal breath

Combining and sustaining that bright floor,

A web of perfect skill, and guileless art,

Unlike the dark artificers below,

Large space for mortals of the earth would thus

Be lifted to the platform of the morn.

There, by the Goddess beckoned, and beholding

Her face, divine in youth, the lengthened toil

Of the ascent were but a test of worth.

And hollow sounds of roaring from the sea

Beneath, cause none, who should ascend, to fall.

To Delos now Orion made, descent

With Eos, hand in hand, when lofty Night

Advanced her shadowy shoulder on the sky.

Good speed made he with his well-practised hand ;

The Harpies slew ; the eastward trees hewed down ;

And laid the temple open to the morn.

136 ORION. [book III.

With all her genial beams. Then Eos first

Felt doubt ; and trembled as she saw the fane

Gleam with her presence, glancing like the light

Within an angry eye-ball. A keen breeze

Now whistled all around, and as it rose

The high green corn, like rapids tow'rds a fall.

Flowed, wave on wave, before the strenuous wind.

She gazed with a cold cheek, till underneath
The sea she heard the coming Sun rejoice ;

And felt the isle for blest events prepare.

Yet was she silent. The untended Sun,

While Eos lingered midst the southern groves.
Made Delos vocal to its lowest roots.

Yet stood she with Orion in the shade,

Who noting not her tender, anxious face.

In generous feelings happy, took his rest.

Midst songs and garlands and uplifted joy,

Day's bright beam sped. Night came ; but not the
Moon.
Night passed. Two spectral armies in the air

Appeared, and with mute fury fought ;. then died

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In mist. A cloud of pale and livid blue,

Lit from behind, hangs low amid the west

What scarce-apparent ray ! what wavering light

Down glances, arching through the silent vault

Again — and yet again the ray

it flies !

The omen and the deed unite — death in

Slain is Orion ! slain is the Friend of Man !

Into the grove, and to the self-same spot

The darts flew ! They thy naked breast have

reached,

O Giant ! child-like in thy truthfulness.

Yet full of noblest gifts, and hard-earned skill

Cut off" when love was perfect, and in the midst

Of all thy fresh designs for human weal.

To make the morning feel itself in vain.

And men turn pale who never shed a tear !

Thy task is finished — thou canst work no more

Thy Maker takes thee, for He loved thee well.

Haggard and chill as a lost ghost, the Morn,

With hair unbraided and unsandalled feet,
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Her colourless robe like a poor wandering smoke,

Moved feebly up the heavens, and in her arms

A shadowy burden heavily bore ; soon fading

In a dark rain, through which the sun arose

Scarce visible, and in his orb confused.

END OF CANTO II.

 ORION.

CANTO THE THIRD.

Strong Spirit of Nature ! if with pious hand,

Of all humanity sensitive, and true

To the first heart of childhood, thou hast striven

Good to effect, and seemingly hast failed.

Lament it not ; that impulse on the frame

Of the dense earth, which no result displays.

Effect or consciousness, not utterly

Shall turn aside, and glancing into space

Be lost and cast away. As with a thought

That, dormant in the brain well nigh a score

Of years, will suddenly, we know not how,

Rise bright before the mind, thus recognised

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As that so long forgotten, — while two brains

Entire, have their material parts used up.

Given off, and changed for new ; — so shall the deeds

Of virtuous power, in their appointed day.

Rise with due strength above the buried hand

That called them first to light. Know this, and hope :

The earth has hard rind, but a subtle heart.

Therefore amidst those shadows, by no form

Projected ; which in secret regions flit.

Of future being, through unnumbered states,

Which are most truly the substantial dreams.

Nor less the aspirations most unearthly,

Of man ; shadows oft hunted, never caught.

Yet traced beyond the grave ; to thought well known

Amidst these shadows stride not thou forlorn,

O Giant sublime, whom death shall not destroy.

'T was eve, and Time his vigorous course pursuing,

Met Akinetos walking by the sea.

At sight of him the Father of the Hours

Paused on the sand, — which shrank, grew moist, and
trembled
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At that unwonted pressure of the God.

And thus with look and accent stern, he spake :

'
Thou art the mortal who, with hand unmoved,

Eatest the fruit of others' toil ; whose heart

Is but a vital engine that conveys

Blood, to no purpose, up and down thy- frame ;

Whose forehead is a large stone sepulchre

Of knowledge ! and whose 'life but turns to waste

My measured hours, and earth's material mass !'

Whereto the Great Unmoved no answer made,

And Time continued, sterner than before

'
Thy sire, Tithonos, living nine score years.

Knew many things ; but when thou wert begot,

Olympos chimed with crystal laughter bright,

Since, for thy mother, his dim vision chose

A fallen statue which he deemed a nymph,

White as a flint amid a field of corn.

I warn thee by that memory ! — thou mistakest

A prostrate stone for the fair truth of life.'
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Whereto the Great Unmoved no answer made,

And Time continued, sterner than before
'
O not -to -be -approved thou Apathy, !

Who gazest downward on that empty shell,

Is it for thee, who bear'st the common lot

Of man, and art his brother in the fields,

From birth to funeral pyre ; is it for thee,

Who didst derive from thy long-living sire

More knowledge than endows far better sons,

Thy lamp to burn within, and turn aside

Thy face from all humanity, or behold it

Without emotion, like some sea-shelled thing

Staring around from a green hollowed rock,

Not aiding, loving, caring — hoping aught

Forgetting Nature, and by her forgot ?'

Whereto, with mildness, Akinetos said,

'
Hast thou considered of Eternity ?'

'
Profoundly have I done so, in my youth,'

Chronos replied, and bowed his furrowed head ;

'
Most, when my tender feet from Chaos trod
Stumbling, — and, doubtful of my eyes, my hands
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The dazzling air explored. But, since that date,

So many ages have I told ; so many,

Fleet after fleet on newly opening seas,

Descry before me, that of late my thoughts

Have rather dwelt on all around my path.
With anxious care. Well were it thus with thee.'

Then Akinetos calmly spake once more.

With eyes still bent upon the tide-ribbed sands :

'
And dost thou of To-morrow also think ?'

Whereat — as one dismayed by sudden thought

Of many crowding things that call him thence,

Time, with bent brows, went hurrying on his way.

Slow tow'rds his cave the Great Unmoved re-

paired,

And, with his back against the rock, sat down

Outside, half smiling in the pleasant air

And in the lonely silence of the place

He thus, at length, discoursed unto himself:

'Orion, ever active and at work.

144 ORION. [book III.

Honest and skilful, not to be surpassed,

Drew misery on himself and those he loved ;

Wrought his companions' death, — and now hath

found,

At Artemis' hand, his own. So fares it ever

With the world's builder. He, from wall to beam.

From pillar to roof, from shade to corporal form,
From the first vague Thought to the Temple vast,
'

A ceaseless contest with the crowd endures,

For whom he labours. Why then should we move ?

Our wisdom cannot change whate'er 's decreed.

Nor e'en the acts or thoughts of brainless men :

Why then be moved ? Best reason is most vain.

He who will do and suffer, must — and end.

Hence, death is not an evil, since it l^ads

To somewhat permanent, beyond the noise

Man maketh on the tabor of his will,

Until the small round burst, and pale he falls.

His ear is stuffed with. the grave's e;art]i, yet feels

The inaudible whispers of. Eternity,

While Time runs shouting to Oblivion

In the upper fields ! I would not swell that cry.'

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Thus Akinetos sat from day to day,

Absorbed in indolent sublimity,

Reviewing thoughts and knowledge o'er and o'er ;

And now he spake, now sang unto himself,

Now sank to brooding silence. From above.

While passing. Time the rock touched ! — and it oozed

Petrific drops — gently at first — and slow.

Reclining lonely in his fixt repose,

The Great Unmoved unconsciously became

Attached to that he pressed, — and gradually
While his thoughts drifted to no shore — a part

O' the rock. There clung the dead excrescence, till

Strong hands, descended from Orion, made

Large roads, built markets, granaries, and steep

walls,

Squaring down rocks for use, and common good.

When Death with moth-like wing and in-drawn

breath

Hovers above a dying brain of power,

And the soul knows the moment of its flight

Is surely near, there floats a crowding train

L
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Of passions, thoughts, actions, events, and hopes

Tenderest affections, and those storms and calms

Wherein the man each complex scene reviews.

And in swift visions lives his course again.

Then sigh the vain regrets o'er wasted days,

And wasted efforts, bred of ignorance,

— or the world's gross wrongs.

Pride, folly, vanity

Exasperating once — now Then pitied.

No casuist baseness making ill acts good

Hurried self-questionings dart to and fro.

If thisor that were — or kind.

right, or wrong
Mean, or magnanimous — forgiving — hard
Generous, or — the sum of
selfish ;
if all.

Balanced in fairness, were the heart's best aim ?

Nor less the painful sense of means yet strong

The consciousness of so much power to do.

And no more time for doing. How they float

Away in mist, all those rare plans, designs

Clear-outlined fabrics reared on solid truths.

Doomed to resolve themselves into the brain

That bred them, and be lost for evermore

This, and a reverent hopeful resignation.
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For many might suffice, without the fears

Of crippled souls, that crawl to fancied hells,

Who are mere grave-worms in reality.

But of his stern philosophy what thoughts

Were last in Akinetos' mind .'
Said he,
'
Annihilation means but perfect change

All are annihilated in the end

Or if there be no end, why that's the same.

If the dead know not their connecting past.

Nor present being.' Held he thus to the last ?

There might have been misgivings — not unwise

That wisdom should be put to use .' But he
Knew better, as he thought — and there were none.
Now had Poseidon with tridental spear

Torn up the smitten sea, which raged on high

With grief and anger for Orion slain
And black Hephaistos deep beneath the earth

A cold thrill felt through his metallic veins,

Which soon with sparkling fire began to writhe
Like serpents, till from each volcanic peak
Burst smoke and threatening flames. Day hid his head.
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And while the body of Orion sank,

Drawn down into the embraceis of the Sea,

The four winds with confronting fury arose,

And to a common centre drove their blasts,

Which, meeting, brake like thunder-stone, or shells

Of war, far scattering. Shipwreck fed the deep.

No Moon had dared the ringing vault to climb ;

No star, no meteor's steed ; and ancient Night

Shook the dishevelled lightening from her brows,

Then sank in deeper gloom. Ere long the roar

Rolled through a distant yawning chasm of flame,

Dying away, and in the air obscure,

Feverish and trembling, — like the breath of one

Recovering from convulsion's throes, — appeared

Two wavering misty shapes upon a mount
Whence now a solemn and reproachful voice.

With broken pauses spake, and thus lamented :

'
Call it not love !
— oh never yet for thee

Did Love's ambrosial pinions fan the hours.

To lose themselves in bliss, which memory

Alone can find, so to renew their life.
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CANTO III.] ORION. 149

Thou couldst not ever thus enjoy, thus give

Thy nature fully up, — thine attributes,

Whate'er of beauty and supreme estate

They owned, — surrendering all before Love's feet.

And in his breath to melt. How shall we name

Thy passion, — ice-pure, self-entire, exacting

All worship, for a limited return ?

But how, ah me ! shall time record the hour.

When with thy bow — its points curved stiffly back,

Like a snake's neck preparing for a spring.

Thou stood'st in lurid ire behind a cloud.

And loosed the fatal shaft ! Where then was love ?

O Artemis ! O miserable Queen

Call it pride, jealousy, revenge — self-love ;

No other. Thou repliest not. Wherefore pride .'

Thou gav'st thyself that wound, rejecting one

Who to thee tendered all his nature ; noble.

Though earth-born, as thou knew'st when first ye met.

And thou not Zeus with a creator's power

His being to re-make .' Thou answerest not.

Why jealous,' but because thou saVst him happy

Without thee, though cast off by thee .' Then why
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Destroy ? Revenge, the champion of self-love.

Can make his well-known sign. O horrible !

Despair to all springs up from murdered love.

And smites revenge with idiocy of grief.

Seeing itself. But wake, and look upon

My loss unutterable. What hast thou gained .'

Nothing but anguish ; and for this accomplished

His death, my loss, and the earth's loss beside.

Of that much-needed hand. I curse thee not

Thou hast, indeed, cursed me — thou know'st it well.'

With face bowed o'er her bosom, Artemis,

As in sad trance, remained. The night was gone ;

The day had dawned, but she perceived it not

Nor Eos knew that any light had passed

From her rent robes. But hope unconsciously
Grew up in her, and yet again she spake

'
Ah, me ! alas ! why came this great affliction.

Which seems, indeed, beyond all remedy,

Though scalding tears from our immortal eyes

Make constant arcs in heaven. Beauty avails not

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CANTO III. ORION. 151

Where power is needed. Seek we, then, for power.

That some reviving or renewing beam

May call him back, now pale in the deep sea !

Thou answerest not. I think thou hast a heart.

Which beats thy reasoning down to silent truth.

And therefore deem I thou with me wilt seek

The throne of Zeus, who may receive our prayers.

Nor from our supplications utterly ,

Take sorrow's sweetness, which hath secret hope,

Like honey drops in some down-fallen flower.'

Her lofty, pallid visage, Artemis

Raised slowly, but with eyes still downward bent
Upon the Ocean rolling dark below,

And answered, — ' I will go with thee.' The twain

Departed heavily on their ascent
Through the grey air, and paused not till they

reached

The region of Olympos, where their course

Was barriered by a mass of angry cloud

Piled up in surging blackness, with a gleam

Of smouldering red seen through at intervals.

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The sign well understood, both Goddesses

Knelt down before the cloud, and Artemis

Brake silence first, with firm yet hollow voice

'
Father of Gods, and of the populous earth !

Who know'st the thoughts and deeds we most would

hide;

And also know'st the secret thrill within,

Which owns no thought nor action, yet comprises

Life's sole excuse for what seems worthiest hate

Extremes and maddened self-opposing springs
Not always thus excused, — O Zeus ! receive

Our prayers, and chiefly mine, which pardon sue.

Besides the dear request. Grant that the life

Of him these hands, once dazzling white, have slain.

May be to earth restored.' More had she said,

But the dark pile of cloud shook with the voice

Of Zeus, who answered :

'
He shall be restored ;

But not returned to earth. His cycle moves

Ascending !'
The deep Sea the announcement heard ;

And from beneath its ever-shifting thrones

The murmuring of a solemn joy sent up.

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The cloud expanded darkly o'er the heavens,

Which, like a vault preparing to give back

The heroic dead, yawned with its sacred gloom,

And iron-crowned Night her black breath poured

around.

To meet the clouds that from Olympos rolled

Billows of darkness with a dirging roar,

Which by gradations of high harmony

Merged in triumphal strains. Their earnest eyes,

Filled with the darkness, and their hands still

clasped,

Kneeling the Goddesses' bright rays perceived,

Reflected, glance before them. Mute they rose
'

With tender consciousness ; and, hand in hand,

Turning, they saw slow rising from the sea

The luminous Giant clad in blazing stars.

New-born and trembling from their Maker's breath,

Divine, refulgent effluence of Love.

Though to his insubstantial form no gleam

Of mortal life's rich colours now gave warmth,
Yet was the image he had worn on earth,

With all its memories of the old dim woods

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The caves — his toils, joys, griefs — the fond old

ways
The same — his heart the same, e'en as of yore.

With pale gold shield, like a translucent Moon

Through which the Morning with ascending cheek
Sheds a soft blush, warming cerulean veins ;

With radiant belt of glory, typical

Of happy change that o'er the zodiac round

Of the world's monstrous phantasies shall come ;

And in his hand a sword of peaceful power.

Streaming like a meteor to direct the earth

To victory over life's distress, and show

The future path whose light runs through death's
glooms ;

In grandeur, like the birth of Motion, rose

The glorious Giant, tow'rds his place in heaven ;

And, while ascending, thus his Spirit sang

'
I came into the world a mortal creature.

Lights flitting upwards through my unwrought clay,

Not knowing what they were, nor whither tending.

But of some goodness conscious in my soul.

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CANTO III.] ORION. 155

With earth's rude elements my first endeavour

I made ; attained rare mastery, and was proud
Then felt strange longings in the grassy woodlands,

And hunted shadows under the slant sun.

'
O Artemis ! bright queen ! high benefactress

My love forgive, that with its human feet

Could not to thy pure altitude ascend,

Nor couldst thou stoop to me. A fiery passion,
Deep as mortality, possessed my life
Nor shall I from my destiny, star-bright

Henceforth, and from transforming change exempt.

Banish the grateful thoughts of Merop6,

Though blindness followed that ecstatic dream.

'
On thee I gaze, blest Goddess of the Morning
In whose sweet smile these stars shall ever melt.

All human beauty perfected in thee.

Divine with human blending. In my heart

Bared full before thee, to the essence fine

Wherewith, by whisperings of my Maker's breath.

These stars of my new life are now inspired
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In this pure essence shall thy treasured love

Receive my adoration ; and the thoughts

Of thee shall open ever in my mind
Like the bland meads in flower when thou appear'st.

'
Thou Earth, whom I have left, and all my
brothers

Followers of Time through steep and thorny ways

Wrestlers with strong Calamity, and falling

For ever, as with generations new

Ye carry on the strife, — deem it no loss

That in full vigour of his fresh designs,

Your Worker and your Builder hath been called

To rest thus undesired. Though for himself

Too soon, and not enough of labour done

For high desires ; sufficient yet to give

The impulse ye are fitted to receive :

More, were a vain ambition. Therefore strive,

My course, without its blindness, to pursue,

So that ye may through night, as ye behold me.
And also through the day by faithful hope.

Ascend to me ; and he who faints half way,

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Gains yet a noble eminence o'er those

Whose feet still plod the earth with hearts o'erdusted.

' Then with aspiring love behold Orion

Not for his need, but for thine own behoof:

He loved thy race, and calls thee to his side.

The human spirit is a mountain thing,

But ere it reach the constellated thrones,

It may attain, and on mankind bestow,

Substance, precision, mastery of hand.

Beauty intense, and power that shapes new life.

So shall each honest heart become a champion.

Each high-wrought soul a builder beyond Time
The ever-hunted, ne'er-o'ertaken Time,

For whom so many youthful hours are slain

Vainly: the grave's brink shows we have been deceived,

And still the aged God his flight maintains

But not in vain the earth-born shall pursue.

E'en though with wayward, often stumbling feet,

That substance-bearing Shadow, if with a soul

That to an absolute unadulterate truth
Aspires, and would make active through the world.
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He hath resolved to plant for future years.

And thus, in the end, each soul may to itself.

With truth before it as its polar guide,

Become both Time and Nature, whose fixt paths

Are spiral, and when lost will find new stars.

Beyond man's unconceived infinities.

And in the Universal Movement join.'

The song ceased ; and at once a chorus burst

From all the stars in heaven, which now shone forth f

The Moon ascends in her rapt loveliness ;

The Ocean swells to her forgivingly ;

Bright comes the dawn, and Eos hides her face.

Glowing with tears divine, within the bosom

Of great Poseidon, in his rocking car

Standing erect to gaze upon his son,

Installed midst golden fires, which ever melt
In Eos' breath and beauty ; rising still

With nightly brilliance, merging in the dawn,

And circling onward in eternal youth.

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